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| This picture, taken around 1900, shows Ellen Thorn in the garden of her home close to the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal. She used to sell bunches of flowers to anglers who came down from London at weekends. Her husband Joseph Thorn was a brickmaker. The opening of the canal in 1881 led to the development of brickfields from Slough towards Langley and Iver and gave easy transport to and from London. |