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  1. Brilliant! Thank you very much. I knew I'd read something somewhere. Someone reminiscing in the Newbury Weekly News in 1878 wrote "A couple of Mr. John Flint’s, or Mr. Evans senior’s, or the late Daniel New’s ‘wussers’, strung together as close as the Siamese Twins, are returning perhaps with loads of the much-prized Newcastle coals that had been ‘whipped’ from the northern coal-hulks in the port of London..." This sounds like wussers were narrowboats, which fits with your two quotes. Then I found another reference which calls a Kennet barge a wusser. But journalists are not always accurate...!
  2. Anyone know the origin of the word? or when / where it was commonly used? It appears in several newspapers around 1870s in the Berkshire area but don't want to assume it wasn't used elsewhere. It's not in the Oxford English Dictionary as a term for a boat. Thanks 🤞
  3. Oh thank you. Not very exciting then 😂
  4. Any info on this structure at the end of the Wootton Wawen aqueduct?
  5. Buckby Locks, do you have a list of those hundred that you could easily send me?
  6. Just wondering if there is a list anywhere of the names of all the WW2 "Idle Women"?
  7. Thanks all for your replies - I will follow up some of these with private messages. Thank you.
  8. Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any information about / links to the Ward boating family in Aylesbury working for Harvey-Taylor's in the 1930s? I have seen a different thread about Wards elsewhere but I don't think this lot is covered. I know it was a common name. The Aylesbury lot I am interested in were Charlie Ward who died in 1937/38 leaving young children Violet, Edie and Marina. I think he had brothers Mike and Billy and a niece Phoebe who married Jim (?)Wallington.
  9. Garston lock was rebuilt to its current size in the mid-19th century though (?1857), being shortened at the head end. The current ground paddles therefore can be no earlier than when the shortening took place.
  10. The locks on the Kennet were originally turf-sided, with a timber structure to keep boats central. Paddles were operated by a crowbar, as on the River Wey. I very much doubt if there were any ground paddles.
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