Bowler at St. Pancras

Bowler Hatted man at St. Pancras Lock. A man in a bowler hat stands in front of the lock cottage at St. Pancras Lock. The former single storey lock cottage is behind and there is a goods warehouse in background, that dates from 1900. The man is wearing a bowler hat, indicating that he has a position of some higher status. He may or may not be the lock-keeper, he may be a more senior canal company employee. In this period most men wore hats but working men tended to wear flat caps, not bowlers