Tooleys Boatyard

Tooley's Boatyard is a boatyard on the Oxford Canal in the focal point of the town of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The opening of the Oxford Canal from Hawkesbury Junction to Banbury on 30 March 1778 gave the town a modest and solid supply of Warwickshire coal. In 1787, the Oxford Canal was broadened southwards, at long last opening to Oxford on 1 January 1790. The trench's primary pontoon yard in Banbury was the first cost of the present office at Tooley's Boatyard, or, in other words recorded social site.

Tooley's is the most established persistent working dry dock in Britain and was set up to fabricate and repair the wooden steed drawn thin water crafts which frequently went all over the recently built Oxford Canal arrange. This is the reason it was so indispensable to the improvement of the Industrial Revolution in Banbury. Throughout the years street haulage and the railroads dissolved away the significance of the channels, despite the fact that they recaptured their neighborhood significance amid the Second World War. Its completely reestablished workshops date from the 1930s and incorporate a woodworker's store, a steam-fueled belt-driven machine workshop, a paint store and a 200-year-old produce where a metalworker makes his exchange.