max's son

I thought you drooled over No3 Vesta Alan? [/url]">http:// [/url]">http:// [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/s%20and%20l/image2.jpg.html'>

I dont think Dad calculated that when he made us stand on the ice at Ashwood back in 62 [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/tractor/img080.jpg.html'>

Earlier 60's I think this was near Rubery Owen in Darlaston [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/engines/breakthefrost1.jpg.html'>

Shown tonight at 20:00, brought back memories of weekends of mud. H&S would stop most of the activities back in the 60s early 70s

Information on the Severn traveller http://www.severntales.co.uk/1939-disaster.html Steam propelled pleasure craft on the Severn were converted to diesel about 1960. In 1971 they were taken over by Mitchell & Butler's Brewery and run by their special projects departtment under the name of The Worcester Steamer Company with an office at the Diglis Hotel, Worcester. As a result, besides the old Belle, two new type of pleasure vessels came into service, each capable of accommodating 200 passengers. These were the Severn Traveller and the Pride of the Midlands. The most interesting of these is the Severn Traveller. She was built in 1937 and spent many years as a diesel barge/tanker carrying petrol up river from Avonmouth to Stourport. In 1939, she was involved in the Severn Bridge Disaster. For a year she was used as a stone-laying vessel downstream at Lydney. She retains her original steel hull, is 90 feet long, and weighs 140 tons, and has a 90 h.p diesel engine. Now in a smart white livery, with a roofed in super-structure which includes a bar, it is difficult to realise her humble origins. The Pride of the Midlands was introduced as a pleasure vessel in 1975. She was a frieght barge, and was very largly rebuilt, with two decks, both covered in and is equiped with central heating, which makes her an all-weather ship. She remains in service until New Year's Eve whereas the others only run between March and October. Once abroad it is difficult to realise you are not in a very elegant pub. Both Severn Traveller and Pride of the Midlands are now used for charter cruises from 8pm to midnight and have become very popular for party outings by trade and business organisations. The Traveller and the Pride as we know them hereabouts, have introduced a new style of river cruising, in keeping with the higher standards of comfort expected today. Yet there's no denying it, those old steamers with their wooded seats and canvas awnings, did have an attraction of their own, especially for a schoolchild, just picture it that bottle of pop, drunk in a squat little saloon with the river bank sliding past the windows. Then a look down below decks at the boiler with its gauges and the sudden glow from the opened firing door. The fascination of cranks and link motions turning, and that warm engine-room smell coming up through the hatch, the wisps of smoke floating away to stern, and the blast of s stream whistle. These were part of our childhood. The conversion of the Severn Traveller was undertaken by the boatbuilding firm of J . H. Everton for the managing director, who intended to use her as his own private boat when she was not on commercial work, but shortly after completion she was sold to Mitchell & Butler. A report in Worcester Evening News of August 1967 stated that a 100 h.p. Glenniffer diesel engine had been fitted, with a second engine for the boat's 230 v. electrical equipment, and a third diesel engine to provide power for the two-60 ft long fire hoses mounted in the bows and stern. Her main engine can be started either of two-ways, by compressor or electrically.

Pinder boats are now called Crafted boats [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/tractor/royalnavyinworcester1.jpg.html'>

Are paddleboards any good for distance, or just for sport? Does this answer your question https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getoutside/guides/paddle-boarding-through-britains-canals/

is this the boat http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/advert.phtml?id=501280 ​"Blacking & Hull survey June 2016, hull deemed 'sound overall structure' with no plating necessary" so may be need to question surveyor.

Here is information on Ictus that used to belong to the artist Garth Allan http://www.garthallan.co.uk/steamboat_ictus.htm

Looks like someone has sawn the boat up and left the rudder

You could go modern Like this one at Heron Rest marina on the Brecon Canal [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/tractor/hrm.jpg.html'> May OTT for one boat shift

A little grey fergie would do the job [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/tractor/anexcellentuseforfergie1.jpg.html'>

http://www.briefreport.co.uk/news/police-appeal-to-track-down-cyclist-after-pensioner-dies-4558955.html Very sad

Just found this book on line, Mick is no relation. says there were 26 flash locks on the Thames from Lechlade to London https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fbq_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT14&lpg=PT14&dq=flash+locks+sinclair&source=bl&ots=gOMR6uh5SB&sig=BBWsAga_e8QI7OSOjhudFJsJBow&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwismunU88bQAhXMF5oKHUmkC5cQ6AEIRTAI#v=onepage&q=flash%20locks%20sinclair&f=false

This document has details of flash locks on the River Teme http://www.rchs.org.uk/trial/6-2%20Teme.pdf Flash locks are discussed here http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=13852&p=216464

interesting another photo they look like wheels [/url]">http:// if you go to this link http://postcardsthenandnow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/rickmansworth-hertfordshire-batchworth.html in 1913 there was only one on the right beam were they added to help balance the gate, like adding an extra weight

Hope they told this person their boats would be stranded http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14904671.Picture_special__What_lurks_beneath_the_waters_of_the_Worcester_to_Birmingham_Canal/#gallery10 http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14904671.Picture_special__What_lurks_beneath_the_waters_of_the_Worcester_to_Birmingham_Canal/

30 hp Bolinder engine from adder back in the sixties [/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/engines/adder%20bolinder.jpg.html'> Too much fuel and it would backfire and break your ankle, the thirty horse model could throw you against the cabin wall, or if you accepted the advice of the old boatmen you opened the double engine room doors and were shot out for a soft landing in the canal. One of dads tales was about Bringing “Adder” through Wolverhampton when the water flow failed with leaves sucked through the filter. they had to remove the cylinder head and scour out all the water ports. To keep the cylinder clean they stuffed it with a large sack. By the time they finished reasembling the engine it was dark and just as Eric lit the blowlamp dad asked if he had removed the sack.”I thought you had done it” was the response, “Oh well here goes” After an extra ten minutes on the blow lamp he gave it a mighty kick, followed by a massive bang and Wolverhampton saw its first atomic cloud emerging from the vertical exhaust pipe. It was another twelve months before they opened it again. Dad had a 9hp one which was mounted on railway sleepers which I remember hi starting and it bounced round the garage floor and great sound

Hi Peter Thanks that looks like the spot, I will let my sister know, I think she is trying to sell them must not miss guide buyers, Regards Ian

is this the same film as http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=86302

This has been seen before

Something like Map my walk would work this can be shared I believe

these are the two windlasses mentioned The scale rule is 12" or 300mm

The Selwyn Jordan mini shown in the picture by Max's son, were made in low quantities and these are rare. So are there collectors of these items, also have two full size windlasses looking for a good home need to photograph (not brass)

[/url]">http://http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/outriggerian/media/Brass/20160718_210537.jpg.html'> This one is about 3 inches by 3 inches been hidden in a draw for 40-50 years