fencemaster

This is super-interesting, what a great community the world of narrowboats is. My mum's house backs on to the Bridgewater canal in Cheshire, which is sadly as close as I've got u til now. Great photos from the 1980s. Pretty sure it was more boats than that. HMS Belfast - it's more of a plan to save it rather than steal it. Although I do have to move it. Without authorisation, which could lool like stealing, depending where you stand on such things. I'll keep you informed. Thanks ever so much.

Yes, good spot, that was the fellow. Definitely October 2003. It was pre-camera phone days (for me at least) otherwise I'd have been snapping away. It was certainly a large number of narrowboats, in excess of 20 - I'm thinking about it now because I once again pass HMS Belfast everyday (and re-hatching those 2003 plans), this time on the Thames Clipper, from Blackfriars where i get off the train, to Canary Wharf.

Hello there. About 19 years ago I was by HMS Belfast, pausing on my walk to work from london bridge station, looking at the ship and plotting how to steal it (long story,I will tell you later) when I saw a narrowboat appear from under Tower Bridge. Just to better date when this was, Tower Bridge was closed to traffic for some weeks, as a Fathers for Justice protestor was up a crane, refusing to come down. I enjoyed this because it meant I got to walk across the bridge in the middle of the road every day. Not something that's usually advisable. The narrowboat was followed by another, then another, then several more, until there were at least 20 passing me. Does anyone here know if this was an event of some sort, if so, is it an annual event? It can't have been just a bizarre narrowboat coincidence surely? I look forward to your responses. Raymond