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Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK (lemmy.world)
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Like most of the jobs ~~around the canal industry~~ of the 18th and 19th century it was incredibly tough and dirty work.

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