I'm trying to find out how "The Crow" flight of locks on the Titford Canal truly got its name. I understand that it was named after the Jim Crow arm, which led off it, halfway up, and fed the Albright & Wilson phosphorus works.
Apocrypha suggests that there was a man called Jim Crow who was a local factory owner or benefactor, but this seems to have spread in the canal community as an anecdote, from an original mention around 50 years ago in the first Nicholson's canal guide, and has self-perpetuated.
Was there a Mr Jim (James) Crow, local benefactor, and/ot what is the origin of the name of the eponymous arm?
Apocrypha suggests that there was a man called Jim Crow who was a local factory owner or benefactor, but this seems to have spread in the canal community as an anecdote, from an original mention around 50 years ago in the first Nicholson's canal guide, and has self-perpetuated.
Was there a Mr Jim (James) Crow, local benefactor, and/ot what is the origin of the name of the eponymous arm?