THe 1965 IWA rallies I believe these were for the 72 ft narrow boats who rallied at Haskayne , rather than on the 62 ft length, Interestingly there were 3 other sites, Botany Bay at Chorley. the main site at Blackburn and on the embankment at Burnley The idea being to promote Leisure cruising at more than a single site
It looked much nicer with a white hull as Swift, I first saw her early 60's with Sir Reginald Kerr stemming her up at the bottom of Grindley Brook staircase on one of his inspection tours,
My Dad hired a boat from Bathursts at Tewkesbury in 195960 and as far as i can remember the Pershore water gate was removed by then.and Pershore was the llimit. In 1962 after the Stourbridge rally in 1962 we got up as far as Cropthorne.
I beleive the gate was removed in 1963.
From the position of total ignorance on the matter, the pod motor appears a bit like an eg whisk for moving a motor sterned narrow boat. To my mind a shaft from a motor to a proper sized blade would make better use of the torque from an electric motor.
I managed a Corona factory manufacturing returnable bottles and it was 10p deposit per bottle.. The trade killed off by the demise of the corner shop. The supermarkets being unwilling to devote store space for returns. Which is why government recycle schemes will face an uphill battle. I do remember going into a carrefour in France in the 80;s that had a hatch in the entrance where they paid deposits on the vin rouge Lltre bottle returns.
I beleive the Yarmouth was shortened by a Mr. C.H. Taplin and renamed Golden Valley at that time. He was an early IWA member and was involved in the Lower Avon Restoration . He kept the boat on the Avon for many years, he had a company that carried out chassis conversions so the commander would make sense.. The company also built several steel narrow boat hulls in about 1966 onwards. Probably finishing production when builders began constructing their own shells.
There was a motorised butty around in the sixties owned by a Reverend Hayter. I think this one came from the Samuel Barlow fleet, possibly originally built by Tooley's. From the picture above I am uncertain if this is the S.U.C. fly boat Clara
Tim Wilkinson in Hold on a minute refers to buttying up with another pair going to Wellingborough, explained to him as teaming up for the journey. Butt and Botty are still very much in South Wales.
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