'Canal Life - Tea Time on a Monkey Boat', 1874. A Victorian family having tea in the cramped living quarters on a barge. These boats were used to deliver goods such as coal and iron ore the length of Britain until they were replaced by the railways. From the Illustrated London News, 10 October 1874.
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