1840
Daniel Gooch writes to Brunel with this drawing recommending Swindon as the site for GWR works. Part of the letter says '...it also has the great advantage of being on the side of a canal communicating with the whole of England, and by which we could get coal and coke.' The canal actually served and then help build the very thing which made it redundant.
1939
In this OS map used by my parents when cycling around Wiltshire in 1939 the canal is already labelled 'Old Canal'.
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