History – The Canal museum

This is a museum in London, near Kings Cross that I visited several weeks ago.
They have a large collection of everything “canal” and the local area. Maps, showing the development of the canal and the reservoirs, models of many different types of canal barge used on the canal and a life size model of a typical barge that a family would have lived on and worked from. The part which I found most interesting were the photographs of the ‘canal children’. The whole family would live and travel together, and the children would start working from a very young age, missing out on any school education.

Here are some photographs from the exhibition that struck me to be very sad: