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Education
Foxton has a wealth of fascinating stories of individuals who have lived on and by the canal. From the engineers who made a living building this water network to the workers who lived here, employed to keep the water traffic moving and look after the families and animals who worked on it.
George Duran Worksheet
George Durran, a former employee of the Grand Union Canal lost an eye and a leg. He was given a job as lock keeper at Foxton Locks and worked there for another 37 years.
Barnabas James Thomas was Gordon's cousin and partner in Thomas & Taylor, the engineer compnay who oversaw the lift construction. In this photo he is wearing the uniform of the lift staff.
Gordon Thomas worksheet
Gordon Cale Thomas as the engineer who designed and oversaw the building of the incline plane lift. He was 36 when he posed for this photograph inside the wheels.
Daisy Dainty was a young girl when her father became lock keeper at Foxton. She remembered moving house on a barge on the incline plane and opened the museum in 1989.
To find out more informatiomn about the life stories of the people on the canals or discuss the worksheets please contact: learning@foxtoncanalmuseum.org