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Iron Trunk 
Name: Iron Trunk
Collection: Vogel Slide Collection
Site: Grand Union Canal
Unit: 1
Piece: 3-12
Structure: Aqueduct
Photo credit: Robert M. Vogel
Photo date: 1977-06-12
Notes: Built 1911 over the River Ouse near Stony Stratford, Wolverton
It replaced an earlier aqueduct constructed of brick piers and a wooden trough of 1803, which collapsed in 1808. The current brick abutments were rebuilt in 1919.
Designed by Benjamin Bevan of Leighton Buzzard,supplied by Reynolds & Co’s Ketley Ironworks, Shropshire.