[ID of boat and location please]

I have records for John Griffiths, Bedworth having four 'steamers' - JUBILEE (1907), ANT (1907), SPEEDWELL (1909) and ENTERPRISE (1910). I have only one motor, PREMIER, a second hand boat entering the fleet in 1930, although the 'steamer' ENTERPRISE is recorded as being a motor as early as 1915. By the early 1930's many of John Griffiths boats were trading under the company name Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company, and it was during this period (1932 - 1936) that several horse boats were converted to counter sterned motors (JOAN = 1932, THE KING = 1933, JAMES = 1934, MARGARET = 1934, TWEED = 1936, CALDER = 1936, ALICE = 1936).

 

I do not have the date for John Giffiths, Bedworth business transferring to Warwickshire Canal Carrying Company but many of his boats continued to operate with both this company as well as the Erewash Canal Carrying Company Ltd. throughout most of the Second World War.

 

John Griffiths, Bedworth has been covered several times over the years in both Waterways World and NarrowBoat magazines, although the details above are from my own records

 

edit = all of the above dates are based upon health registrations and not acquisition dates.

I reckon this is NUNEATON, operated by the Narrow Boat Trust Ltd.

I am indeed steering the NBT motor Nuneaton below Atherstone Lock 5, October 2014.

I see that we can't pull the wool over your eyes, lad, welcome to the forum!

Is that your boat in the avatar picture? Which one is she?

Not mine but I'm steering Narrow Boat Trust motor Nuneaton towing butty Brighton in October 2014 below Atherstone Lock 5 en route to winter moorings at Alvecote.

[ID of boat and location please]

Thanks for all the replies, how do I put a photo onto my post please?

Yes, they were quite advanced down there in Bed'orth. Look at that luxurious hi-tech dock they created there, for example.

Are you referring to that wonder of the Coventry Canal, the sartorially dressed Charity Dock perchance?

[ID of boat and location please]

Hi there

I'm new to this forum and can't find a way to post a photo here, but have created an album called Heritage with a Griffiths of Bedworth boat entering a lock and am asking for help in naming the boat and it's location please. It looks to me like a broad lock with the butty perhaps obscuring the motor?

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks

Roger