You are 'deffo' right! Didn't look properly. George Harris's motor is the Clematis and the butty a little station boat - Kidsgrove or Ditton I think. I reckon that's Colin on the butty's cabin top. George had the Bilster and the Angel after them. The loaded boat tied in front before the aqueduct looks like a Pimlotts motor.
So George Radford, Charley and Ellen Roberts and the Harris family.
George Radford on Tarporley, Jack Roberts and Mrs Roberts on Apple, Janet & Muriel Harris on the emptied motor Bilster and George Harris sitting in the hatches of their butty Angel. Jack Roberts later became the lock keeper at Bosley.
Sorry, Charley Roberts - not Jack.
Banbury 3 bob (15p) a ton for chucking out and 9/6d a ton carriage. Perks were a crate of sterilised milk from Nick the boilerman and 2 cwt of DS Nuts up the forend for “The Boatman’s Charity” 🙂. The Lengthsman, and his son in the house down Napton, left half a crown (2/6d) under a barrow if not around. If they were around a mug of their home-made wine made reaching the bottom lock hazardous! Banbury took 3 loads a month from Pooley in 1963/4/5. "Nobel" tunnel before the fancy lights!
Not 50 tons. More like 22, but single handed. Remains of Banbury Dairy in 2007 with 3 boiler-room ‘holes’, where you ‘chucked’ it, blocked up. But the 56 lb iron log ring still there!
Mmmm, "Fate of The Knights" - New Netflix Series?
Seen together at Sutton Stop around 1968 with Keith Christie. They shared a Severner 'Dove' with Philip Hutchins then. If Peter Froud were alive he'd be the one to reflect on upheavals.
The scene with Morton in it must have been shot on a Wednesday - his Braunston/Nelson day/night.
https://www.macearchive.org/films/look-around-12071963-waterways
Whitlocks at 10:10.
At 12:10 Mr Morton with Marion Harris and family behind - followed by George Harris and Janet.
Brian & Rosy Daisy Knight at 21:08 onward. (Relationship upheaval shortly after - not sure of outcome)
Colonel Ritchie in it too - even me in a couple of shots.
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