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On 25/05/2024 at 08:25, jeannette smith harrison said:
Hello Anna
Sorry i can not give you much info on the history of boat spain but i do know she was once steered by the Bunn family
the pictures are of myself with Freddy Bunn junior who made this replica himself .
The doubled up picture the top section in middle fred's dad sadly both have now gone a boating to the great cut in the sky .fred was a fantastic person v polite with a lot of knowledge .there are some of his boating day friends still around who might come forward with more info .i have some copies of old family photos given to me by Fred but would first as common manners ask the permission of the Gentleman who is custodian of the boats & family info .oh added info he also had a replica of another family boat P
ortugal
Just dug this photo out also made by Freddy & part of his family boating History
the Gentleman with him is also part of my family Boating folk as added intrest his family had England (seen in Ray T picture) when it was Germany then changed in the war era to England
Hello Jeanette
I'm rather confused here, but it's easily done!
The upper photo is overlaid on top of a black and white photo. This was taken many years ago by the late Malcolm Braine who told me that he took it at his Norton Canes yard and that it was of MARQUIS when owned by WJ Haywards and still called SALLY. By then he couldn't remember the identities of those pictured but I have subsequently discovered and met the family of the captain, on the right, George Wood ex FMC.
Would you know the other two?
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1 minute ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
Top of the page, next to the 'paintbrush' is one marked 'customiser' you can switch it off there
Thanks for that. Done!
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On 11/12/2023 at 10:31, Mike Hurley said:
And mine, annoying.
Mine too. Very annoying. Someone please stop it.
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10 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
This is what I was referring to https://housingcare.org/housing-care/facility-info-116221-joules-court-stone-england
Quite a way away and below deep-ish Yard Lock so shielded by the geography and I'm unaware that there has been any complaint from there.
Any valid complaints have been from dwellings in Trent Court (the old hospital buildings).
The pub has two elevations to the canal, one facing Canal Cruising's yard and their small basin, and Trent Court, and the other set at a different angle against the canal proper and where, when here, my mooring.
There is a quite tasteful 3 storey residential development of flats and housing behind the towpath hedge and therefore behind me. They would suffer no worse than me if there was a real problem. But there really isn't, but I suspect this is where many of the moaners reside.
Shame
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1 hour ago, Machpoint005 said:
If the pub is playing loud music late at night, it doesn't matter who was there first. A nuisance is a nuisance is a nuisance, but as I've said elsewhere, it is not explicitly defined in law.
However, in common law a 'nuisance' can be defined as a matter which is an unreasonable and substantial interference on the use and enjoyment of a person's property.
The Crown Wharf does not play loud music late at night, or any other music late at night for that matter. Most complaints were about the noise of mass conversation, with some poor soul complaining of a choir practice, which in the summer months can be heard, and is quite delightful. They're a bit good.
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On 11/11/2022 at 15:50, ditchcrawler said:
Its probably from the gated retirement homes nearby
There are no gated retirement homes nearby.
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On 31/10/2022 at 11:33, frahkn said:
I cannot find an e-mail address on their web site (such as it is), can anyone help?
Ring Kathy Artus on 07970 021607
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14 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
Same here
Me too
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9 hours ago, robtheplod said:
Always amazed boat licenses only make up 12% of their income. I suppose it gives us an idea where boaters are in the pecking order though?
But don't forget that's the income from boat licences.
It doesn't stop there.
Without boaters with money in their pockets, so few of CRT's business tenants would be viable and able to pay them rent.
The estates department is doing so well that the director for this, Stuart Mills, earns, with his bonuses (not begrudged) more than CEO Richard Parry!
Almost every boatyard is a CRT tenant, and then there are all the other businesses along the towpath side of the cut frequented by boaters where the freehold belongs to the Canal & River Trust, from pubs to shops, to goodness knows what. And many on the offside too.
They have been asked to come clean and show all this in the Annual Report as income derived from boating activity. Some is slowly creeping in.
No boaters, no dosh!
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13 hours ago, Midnight said:
Escape from Yorkshire is proving harder than escape from Colditz with uncertainties in every direction. All Pennine routes are out despite the recent rain. We set off yesterday in the hope that we may get onto the Trent, but no progress on the railway bridge at Keadby. I tried ringing Network Rail but 4 rings then 5 minutes of piped music before giving up. Coming up to Castleford Junction shortly do we chance Keadby or go up to Skipton (are Forge Locks open yet?) and wait for rain?
Still nice to see so many blue signs around the Calder & Hebble Locks even though many have only one paddle working.
"The scale of our works will increase to unprecedented levels" - Richard Parry November 2021I think even Pat Reid would be struggling with this one.
I, we, whoever, do the tidal Trent every year or few and have just found and joined 'Trentlink - Safe Navigation of the Tidal River Trent' on Facebook. Frequent updates, sometimes several a day, and in the last few, ongoing updates on the Vazon rail bridge across the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, including a boat who was told it was closed and turned up and they opened it!
Worth a look. Everyone else I've mentioned it too, including old Trent hands, have joined up straight away.
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On 29/12/2021 at 19:44, Jim Riley said:
A sign of the times, new blue shiny, signifying nowt except expense.
Meanwhile, they took an angle grinder to the one below Star Lock in Stone (T&M) and chopped it down!
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It was the BBC that reported this this morning and is still insisting that Castle Street is a towpath on their website news. The path referred to is a riverside walk. No canal anywhere near.
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14 minutes ago, MtB said:
As above
I don't see how any 50-year-old boat could be stopped from joining in and taking part in the rally, or any boat of any age actually.
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On 20/05/2022 at 12:05, Athy said:
Is the wrong answer! Hire boats work for their living - a point made more than once by a CWDF member who owns or owned an ex-hire craft.
The point raised was that old hire boats are or will be eligible to take part in the Braunston Parade, inferring that they would be invited to participate in the Braunston Historic Boat Rally, held at the end of June.
I think you'd all better take that up with the organisers. This is a privately organised event, based around a privately owned marina and boatyard, and I think I know what their answer would be!
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Why? Is it a working or ex-working boat?
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17 hours ago, Nightwatch said:
Probably do these locks tomorrow. Are there normally Volockies there?
If you are getting on in years or are in some way disabled and are going to be single handed, telephone CRT and talk to them.
If not, get on with it.
They are delightful and delightfully easy, as long as with the rest of the Shroppie, you are mindful of the fierce by-washes.
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17 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
The re-alignment was adopted because it saved money, otherwise I bet the cottage, lock and all, would be going.
Now credit where credit's due; one Richard Parry of CRT got personally involved in this re-alignment, and no doubt, having spent many years in the railway industry, was in a good position to bend a few ears and provide solutions.
I believe he took HS2 to task on several other sensitive sites along the proposed line.
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On 09/05/2022 at 08:08, Grassman said:
The IWA have been arguing that it could be completed in 6 weeks but CRT won't budge on the matter. This has been going on since CRT made the initial announcement months ago, and even the involvement of Richard Parry didn't change things.
Well I think CRT are taking us boaters for mugs.
CRT told me it wasn't them but the Highway Authority that demanded the long closure.
This indeed is a bridge designed for the deck height to be raised in the case of subsidence. The new deck could easily be made off site, brought to the job and installed.
And as for lime mortar taking six months to harden....!
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14 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
And there's me saying the cut's no worse than any other transport system. That's my route home stuffed and there's going to be a hell of a tailback of hireboats and a lot of angry customers. Two big marinas along there with people trying to get back - I suspect CRT might treat this as a bit of a priority. Shame they didn't bother when it was just one paddle.
It took three of us to get Baddiley middle lock open today - you have to bounce it while it's still six inches from full as it never fills on the one working paddle. Going up, you bash it with the boat. That's going to be expensive in the end...
Reported last night that there was a growing queue of historic ex-working boats returning from Ellesmere Port.
Good luck!
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17 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
Red diesel at Streethay was 175p/lt that is 10p/lt more than I paid to fill the car yesterday with white
So whose having your rebate?
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6 hours ago, junior said:
The Shroppie is very isolated. Once you leave Wolverhampton which is nothing to write home about, your next proper town is Nantwich. I appreciate there's Market Drayton, but I've moored overnight there numerous times and never found the town!
Good thing about the T&M is there's a convenient canal side town almost every night. Stone, Stoke (Etruria), Red Bull, Wheelock, Middlewich, Barnton/Northwich, Lymm etc....
Well I would agree with you in many respects, but to say you've never found the town of Mkt Drayton?! So sad.
But I'm sure you're not one of those who tie up leaving gaps so us deep boats struggle, and then just get your chair out.
It's just up the road, and may have seen more prosperous days, but still full of individual traders and great pubs.
Nice little country town and a great street market.
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2 hours ago, Laurie Booth said:And the best beer of all time "Watney's Red Barrel"
When I was at college in London in the late 60s, the saying was "Don't take the piss out of Watneys, It needs all the flavour it can get."
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16 hours ago, Goliath said:
I like the Sarah Hughes ‘Dark Ruby Mild’.
But haven’t visited the Brewery, or pub, the Beacon(?)
How far is the canal from it?
Walking distance or a bus ride?
Moor at Tipton and catch a bus to Sedgley. The Beacon is a moderate walk from there. But there are other alternatives on this trip.
1. Stop off at The Park PH at Woodsetton; Holdens brewery tap.
2. From Sedgley, take the Dudley bus and stop off at the Britannia in Gornal; a Bathams house.
Sadly, the Beacon isn't dog friendly, but the others are.
Good boozing is the Black Country!
Anderton Company Motor 'Spain' and the flashes at Whitecroft.
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Thanks so much for that. Two down, one to go!
Yes, I knew about Holloways renaming her Sally. Sally was apparently Joe Holloway's sister Sarah, but known as Sally.
When I bought her in 2006, she came with a big box of history which Paul Hunter had put together after much research. But as in all history, other facts emerge. For instance, after Holloways had her, the late Joe Chetten and I concluded from what he told me from when he was a kid, she went to Alan Stevens after she was shortened and before going to Haywards.
And Harry Arnold said the she didn't start her cruising life at Yates's, but was converted in Stone, at Stone Boat Builders or their forebears! But not David Wyatt's. The other name you may be looking for is 'Calypso', as that is what she was called in her early cruising days.
We keep collecting.
Thank you so much for your help.