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3 hours ago, jeannette smith harrison said:
archie57
As you know all but Ron Hough are close parts of my boating family tree ,your name came up in conversation a few weeks back
in a conversation with my cousin John = the son of CalIf Lane -I wont be seeing him for a while now due to this virus but he told me lots of tales of the goings on on the hanwell thicket when they came back drunk from the fox pub
Thanks Jeanette, I hope I wasn't in trouble!
Regarding Ron Hough, he was married to Bert's niece as you know, others might not make the connection.
I'm sending you a PM
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4 hours ago, Ray T said:
https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/bw192.3.2.2.13.1.260
Black and white photograph showing the people posing in front of the narrowboats, they are from left to right, Mr Kalelane, Alf Hambridge, George Radford, George Wain, Ron Hough, Ted Ward & Ann Lane. In the background are the British Waterways narrowboats 'Crux', the motor "Bootes" and the butty 'Cardiff'.
I rather think that the motor 2nd from R is the Tadworth
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Don't you start...!
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- and a brilliant team they were. Always friendly and helpful, and the canal around Braunston especially is testament to the quality of their work. At least when ex-boaters are in the dredging gang you know they are going to take out as much as possible, and not work to some figure worked out by a pen-pusher in an office. I used to be on the receiving end of some mickey-taking mind.....
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When I saw it at Hanwell yard it had a Petter PD4 in it
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12 hours ago, zenataomm said:
I'd have thought they were the 'Tipit', the narrow heavy duty roll that runs along over the top cloth on top of the plank.
Too big for the tippets, and you wouldn't use those without the topcloths.....
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They are the topcloths
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Sorry to hear this, he was the Petter expert.
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1 hour ago, Alway Swilby said:
We'll need to use a winding hole to get to a water point and to get some shopping.
Dare I ask - how long is your boat...…?
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- and presumably it still fits Edgbaston tunnel, despite CRTs best efforts......
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On 09/03/2020 at 16:20, cuthound said:
Lets hope they remove all of the rubble from the cut. ?
Like they did at the Minworth embankment...…...
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Have the residents of Wolverhampton stopped going to the loo...……
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Ceres?
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2 hours ago, BWM said:
Aside of disagreeing it is unlikely that there are enough engines of the correct type available to re engine those boats without them today, taking the national as an example, these were removed and replaced with pd's which again are both rare and unreliable.
The PDs may have been unreliable in later Willow Wren days - Leslie Morton hated them - but properly maintained, as in BTW days, I'm told they performed ok. I had one for 27 years which, apart from a broken oil pipe, never let me down.
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40 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:
To give some idea of timeframe, the originally quoted date for this photo of 1958, is surely about the time that these Water Bus boats were being created out of ex working boats. Also I think about the time that BW were trashing lots of redundant boats in Harefield Flash.
Well before dates I have much knowledge of, but if it is 1958, and I'm right that the boat is no longer BW owned, I can't imagine there are many candidate "Small Woolwich" boats to have been disposed of that early.I'm sure Pete can tell us when eg Arthur Goddard had the Callisto…….
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Is it related to the 4 cylinder one in this?....
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The article in the latest HNBC newsletter prompted me to contact his nephew just before Christmas who gave me the news. I miss his interesting contributions to the Forum, I wish I'd made contact with him....
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I'm sorry to have to report that Alan died last March.
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Tamarinds for HP sauce
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38 minutes ago, Heartland said:
That is useful.
Then there is the image showing the GLENDOWER passing what may be a BTW boat and various wharfside buildings
Claytons boat at Cropredy - Albert Beechey perhaps?
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21 hours ago, billybobbooth said:
That's now at bclm, along with Coventry (might be wrong) but I got told the 2 were owned by the same person
Ross at the time was owned by the late Bill Brookes, together with the Erebus.
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The site of the junction at Longford is where boats used to wind before going stern first up to the loading shutes 1/2 mile further on towards Coventry. Tight for a full length boat, you probable couldn't do it now because of the moored boats.
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51 minutes ago, Derek R. said:
Wasn't there a Sam Lawton lock keeper at Cowley? May not be a relative at all, and for all I know may have been spelt differently, but the name rings a bell.
This was the ex-boating Sammy Lawton, moved there from Denham lock
Marple lock ground paddles
in History & Heritage
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funnily enough, my cross country running days took me past there - always at the rear of the pack needless to say - from Marple Hall?