barry adams

Photo on BBC news, also says no one injured.

If both of you are keen cyclists then you will be able to reply with the time trial course that you say has been used. I have looked on the https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/ website and cannot find one that includes any part of a river or canal tow path.

Done a few floors in a house none on a boat, but some tips that might be of some use. I measured the rooms that I wanted to lay the floors on three times and got the right measurments. After that a scale drawing was done - this saved me one complete pack of flooring as I knew where to lay the odd lengths as starters for the next row. The long corridor was a real pain to get in a straight line and the correct gap between the wall and the first length of boards. The answer was to measure and glue up three complets lengths, once the glue had dried they could be moved into position as one unit. By doing the scale drawing I could make sure that the last run of boards were not to thin by cutting the first run boards narrower.

I never knew how long Graham kept them for. If I could edit it I would tone down my original comment. I had had Stamford partly rebottomed. Front of engine room backwards and the JP2 put in. If I had kept the the next job would been Stamfords hold bottom replaced plus any other work on the knees / sides.

Thanks Roland It was the 1987 date that gave me the wrong idea. I was on Bude a few years ago and she is in really good hands as is Stamford. Pity they were split up as they did the very last BWB lime juice run before BWB gave it up.

Complete and utterly incorrect. None of the above about how Stamford and Bude were sold by me is correct. Graham bought them from me in 1987. Its a curious mixture of a little bit correct and the rest fantasy.

PD2 hand starting mechanism. The spiral was intended for a disc to go into the grooves and through that disc was a rod that held the decompressors open. As you turned the starting handle the disc travelled along the spiral and when it reached a set point the rod that held the decompresors open had moved along and the levers would then be free to release and put the engine onto compression.

Yes he did in recent years helping Kirk Martin.

It is with much regret to have to write that I went to Peter X (Peter Lovetts) funeral today. Peter was taken poorly a while back and was found to have a brain cancer, despite his own fortitude and the best efforts of the medical team he passed away. Peter helped crew many boats that needed moving and did it for just his costs. Also helped out on the council run boat Tarporly. He was also a very valued member of the Narrowboat Trust and took on the treasurers job and did it extremly well. He was really good company and ready to crew at the drop of a hat and will be very much missed by all who knew him. Barry Adams ( Narrowboat trust )

"I would imagine that the reduction in strength caused by removing the woodwork wouldn't have helped, have always heard this sort of damage referred to as winded but thought it was more likely getting a turn wrong when loaded or crashed into. I can see how that swinging grab may have caused havoc though, i'd have been annoyed if my boats were treated like that! Was Stamford part of this traffic? That had a huge bend in the side when we looked at it." As said Stamford was not on the Soar but the Lime Juice. Stamford and Bude did the very last lime juice run for BWB. The dent in the side was done by her having to be strapped to a halt very quickly. Di Murrel if she sees this might explain more. The dent in the side never caused me any problems all the while I had her.

Many moons ago we were moored up on the big bit of concrete at the Bells of Ousley ( on the Thames ). Nice slipper launch cruising up and down looking for somewhere to moor, we called out and he moored alongside us ( unconverted motor ) the launch was steam powered and the boiler was from the Vietnam war period these were used in the jungle to power a generator to run the radio set. Steam being used for the lack of noise and smell of petrol or diesel.

If the photograph was taken by either a local person or a staff photographer and is still available then its possible to have been taken on 120 ( 21/4 x a minum of 2/14 square but can be longer on the width ), 127 or a press camera usually a Speed Graphic ). If taken with a S.G. 5x4 then a look at the original photo rather than a scanned image may well have the details showing very clearly.

Looking at the engine room with the magnification as high as possible before the photo pixalates. The tops of the slides / covers appear to be a lot higher than the capping strip across the front of the engine room.

Engine room looks to have lift up hatches instead of slides. Have opened the original photo in photoshop to enlarge it as much as possible. Motor name looks to be six or seven letters. Motor fore end hatch cover is possible checkerplate and only curves a little bit over the underneath upstand.