British Canals in Wartime- Transport in Britain, 1944 A boatman's wife steers the 'butty', the second in the pair of canal boats operated by he husband, probably along the Grand Union Canal, her baby seated beside her. Canal boats are mostly operated in pairs, the leader being run by an engine with the second towed behind.

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