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On our 22m barge the only heat was a diesel heater in which we used red diesel but could have used heating oil, admittedly the price wasn’t so high as now. The beauty of the thing was that it used no power , was controllable, could be left on tick over overnight or turned off when the morning initial chill had gone and no mess.
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Had a walk at Boddington Reservoir this afternoon very low considering the rain we’ve had recently. Maybe CRT have run it down.
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1 hour ago, bizzard said:
Only wealthy folk could afford their stuff as it wasn't toys but proper expert engineering, all manner and types of steam engines, loco's and equipment from about 7.1/4'' down to 0 gauge. They also specialized on planning and building indoor and garden railways for rich folk. Ordinary folk were stuck with Hornby 0 gauge tinplate stuff from Binn's Rd Liverpool.
They also made Architectural models and Ships models for the owners. I wanted an oo Hornby but got a triang instead which were all plastic and didn’t work that well .
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17 minutes ago, Loddon said:
There are still some shoe manufacturers in Northamptonshire. The shoes they produce are very good but mind numbingly expensive.
Like Church’s who are actually expanding. I meet an American who always had Church’s and most of them had lasted years as they just got resoled when needed.
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43 minutes ago, bizzard said:
Gorn are the days when Nothampton was a shoe making town, also the famous and wonderful firm of Basset Lowke the precision model engineers of which I have an old catalogue.
Used to look in the shop window of Basset Lowkes every Saturday when we went into town there were different models every time. The house that Basset Lowke lived in is now a museum as it was designed by Mackintosh and there are a few models there.
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1 hour ago, Tacet said:
My father was evacuated to Northampton. He said every school subject and lesson was somehow related to the boot trade, there being no real doubt as to one's career.
There was plenty of choice besides the boot and shoe trade which is just about hanging on now. There was Brown Bros Aircraft who went on to make the Dolphin cruisers, British Timpkins the bearing company, Express lifts who were on the site where the lift tower now stands and 2 major breweries. When I left school in 1958 there was an enormous choice of career as well as all the professions who in those times took on articled clerks to learn on the job. Didn’t fancy any of them though and went in the MN.
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Sorry some of you have a poor view of Northampton. As someone born and always lived in the town or county (except for some years at sea) we do not recognise the place either. We weren’t asked if we wanted the Development corporation or all the modern slums housing Londoners and then all the housing brought by people who were selling up anywhere south and finishing up with a handy lump sum. The whole place has changed and not for the better. It was a very fine market town with good industry, more parks than almost any comparable size town, the river and of course the canals.
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There is a pub in Long Itchington called the Harvester nothing to do with the chain it’s just off the green and further down the road is the Green Man. Difficult to find a “proper pub” in rural areas as they all have to rely on the food trade.
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Prices and weights have changed since the good old days!
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Had a couple of cheap basic ones at first but brought a 3000/24 Victron combi in 2006 still going strong. It is not one of the fancy ones and we needed a big one for all the 240 stuff on the barge.
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Those of us in houses who use oil were told we would get £100 towards the cost of oil as we don’t have gas but not how to claim it. As we are getting the rebate from our electricity supplier at a fixed rate the whole thing is as usual not properly thought out.
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Found this photo of a paddle driver weed cutter on the Burgundy canal. Needless to say it wasn’t working
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The advert says built by Yarwoods. Wonder why they had a V bottom.
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Here’s a couple of photos , not mine, of 55m barges being moved in N.Ireland. They are Kempenar size ro be used for sand sucking on Lough Neagh. The company Witten moved my NB back from Ireland in 2000 but didn’t need such. Big truck
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On Anglia news tonight report and film of swans in trouble on the broads due to the avian flu.
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When all this was being proposed I was the IWA representative on the committee chaired by the late Tony Grantham. At one meeting I asked if the regulations would have stopped the 3 recent events at Braunston. No 1 NB Fox set on fire by someone passing out whilst smoking, 2 filling the outboard motor in the bottom lock at same time as wife lighting gas stove, 3 pilot light left on and gone out when owner visited boat bit later and lite a cigarette which blew the cabin off the hull and him onto the wharf.
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As commercial operators in the 70s we had an annual license instead of tolls and I think pleasure boats also had to be licensed. Not sure of the exact date but a safety certificate came into being around 1978 and it applied to hire craft and houseboats. As we were camping boating we had to get one of the first ones and I got the surveyor to give the Raymond the once over as Arthur was very worried that it would not pass and they would have nowhere to live, in fact he got the certificate. This eventually morphed into the current BSS as there was a lot of lobbying by the boating trade to extend it to private boats.
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3 hours ago, Mike Tee said:
That looks like it has one too many zero's!
Afraid not as it was really shot and needed some timber work.
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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
And whats his insurance premium
They are going to apply to change to tiles but think they will be lucky.
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8 hours ago, MtB said:
Houses like that are similar to boats in many respects. There are a million logical reasons not to buy them but they are fascinating and lovely to live in. Like boats, a weird layout, low ceilings, risk of flooding and and terrible energy efficiency add to the charm, rather than detract from it.
The only thing wrong I can see with that house is the boring ordinary slate roof, instead of thatch!
Lucky it’s not thatch my neighour just been quoted 80000 for a rethatch and it’s not a very big house.
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In 2015 we were touring New England to see the leaves. On this day we were at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire and saw this steamer Mount Washington. Couldn’t find the boat that still takes mail around the lake unfortunately.
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On our barge the BT was electric but a 3phase 10kw motor which ran off the generator so if going to use had to start genny which fired up straight away and leave it running until the need was over. No problem but actually it was very rare that it was needed only reversing out of tight or bendy moorings.
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My information is now out of date but we took our 50 ft NB to Ireland in 1998. It depends where you are going to keep in once it’s over there but Shannon harbour had the dry dock and welders. We used an Irish haulier from Bannager and the boat went unaccompanied ie the tractor unit and driver this side did not go with it just the trailer on the ferry and picked up by in Dublin by another driver. The company had trailers and a tractor unit based in Liverpool. With a 38 ft boat any 40 ft trailer will be ok although as the springer has a slight V bottom some extra Timbers may be needed.
I would doubt if there would be much tax to pay due to age and value.
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Today in 2014 at our mooring on the Burgundy canal. Bruno giving his dogs a ride.
Cross the wash whilst you still can🤔
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Years ago think mid 70s when a scheme for a barrage in the wash was proposed, I was on the IWA council and went to a place near Abington where they had made a large a large detailed model of the wash and the river systems feeding into it. The tides were replicated and slit was feed into the rivers based on the known run off. They ran it for some years and decided it was not viable. This new scheme is further out and much larger but in all the blurb no mention was made of how to deal with the inevitable slit build up and I would be surprised if shipping lines would like a “port” exposed to the North Sea.