Simon666

that's the chap.Roy. Thanks for that Dave. used to have a polly tunnel over the water with a space heater. that was the paint shed.cheers Simon.

there in the early/mid 80s. For Pete and Linda. had a hire fleet of about 10 narrow boats, ranging from a couple of the old fibre glass topped in blue, to all steel from 29 to 68 foot long in the new grey and Red liveries. at the time some were bought used while the fleet was being built up by les Allen at Oldbury, supplying the Hull and superstructure shell. We would then shot blast, paint and totally fit out including engine electrics etc. usually fitting a ThorneyCroft 1.5 diesel unit. Also private customers would have new boats built using the same practice. I am nearly 100% that the old fibre glass top boats where totally built there in the 70s. I am sure there was some old moulds lying about. also we did our own steel fabricating, in the way of re bottoming, extending etc I remember the traditional sign writer from near Birmingham, can't remember his name. used to watch him for hours. hope to have been of help.