Top Lock Southall: A memory of Southall

Top Lock Southall

A Memory of Southall.

Quaker Oats had a spur going into their factory just past top lock on the Grand Union Canal. I used to watch the barges being unloaded with a huge vacumn pipe used by a man standing on the barge. Due to the fact a lot of wheat was spilled into the canal the fishing was superb. The spur is now a mooring for houseboats.

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I played along there as a kid in the 70's , dredging with make shift hooks on a bit of rope, fishing and other stuff. My school George Tomlinson's was directly opposite. Must take a pass by there sometime soon.

By abarrett140 on Thu Jan 25th 2018, at 10:04 pm

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I worked at the Quaker Oat in the 1960`s and worked on that big `Hoover` the grain was transferred from ships docked at one of the London docks to the barges and then towed to Quaker Oats sucked out into a silo and from there to the magic gun to make it into PUFF WHEAT etc

By rusky1937 on Tue Oct 8th 2019, at 2:13 pm

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