Reader recalls the 1903 Stourbridge Canal disaster - your letters, plus Vikings and Saxons descend on Trysull in a 1977 archive picture

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In the aftermath of the Shropshire canal drama I was interested to read the recent account of the Dudley Port disaster, when part of the canal collapsed. It reminded........

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