Kidderminster’s canals have historically kept the town well connected and allowed for the transportation of goods, helping to make Kidderminster a globally recognised name in carpet production. In addition, the canals were easy access for the carpet factories when it came to washing and dyeing wool.
In these photos from the Museum of Carpet’s archives, a barge, “Saturn”, is loaded with carpets and bound for Australia. The next two photos show the canal and the Piano building, a Brintons wool warehouse, across a span of over a hundred years. The Piano building was subject to a fire in 1878 and was subsequently rebuilt.
The Museum of Carpet’s gift shop holds a range of local history books about Kidderminster and its surrounding areas, as well as postcards of Kidderminster, its canals and its historical buildings.
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