nbfiresprite

Some of the pounds have been leaking for years on the flight. What puts people off is arriving at the top lock and finding that the flight has a number of empty pounds which have drained through the day due to leaks in the lining. When there was a flight keeper it was not too bad as they run water down to fill the pounds that were draining. Facing a string of empty pounds, people turnround and go elsewhere, unless they have just paid for a EA visiters licence from the Marina, so will spend some hours refilling the flight, something I have had to do myself.

Hire boat bases tend to have a high turnover of fuel between Easter and September, You may not get served on turnround days (Mondays,Fridays,Saturdays) at some bases.

Some of the rubber bearing pads have been damaged by the heat of the fire, to replace will need jacks or a crane to lift the bridge deck up to allow the damaged pads to be replaced. People who don't license their boats, tend not to bother with insurance, it is the same with some car or van owners who don't bother with paying the VED, or getting a MOT. No one was living aboard, much of the inside had been removed and dumped beforehand, The name and index number had been removed. The boat was about to be taken anyway by the Middle Level for non payment, a 7day legal notice had been fixed to the boat a few days before, So they no longer owned it. The picture was clearly taken before the fire engines arrived from March Station (3 or 4 minuites). No fireman would let someone stand that close to a raging fire to take a picture. They were standing at the bottom of the steps which go up the bank to join the West End road. They claim on the Gofundme page that "someone has set my houseboat on fire". Yet they told the fire service that 'the cause of the fire was accidental'. Either have they lost everything other than the boat which is longer thiers anyway. Cambs Fire Service incident report. It is belived among the people who watch the fire from the marina bankside that these two set fire to the boat themselves as a scam. When they runout of money to refit. It's both, there are two of them. It is a fact of life that people tend to give more to a gofund page when it is a woman.

Thats the one, standard NBTA insurance by begging bowl. That picture is suspect, did they set the boat alight themselves? Telling porkers about what was on board, going to need far more than £10K, Highways bill for damage to the bridge Licence fees dating back to October 2020 plus towage, storage and legal fees to the Middle levels

When I dialed 999 on Monday for a fire engine to put out the boat fire under the bypass bridge. I was put through to the Belfast control centre where I had trouble understand person I was talking too. Who had trouble beliving that there is a town called March, she kept telling me that she did not need the month.

There was a boat fire on Monday evening under the March Bypass bridge. Some of us watched this happen from the moorings at Foxes, there is some damage to the underside bridge from the heat of the fire. One person was injured while putting out the fire. The boat was unlicenced and the subject of enforcement action by the Middle Level. This morning Kevin Russel the enforcement officer towed the waterlogged burnout wreck back to the Middle Level yard to be impounded. The owner who is a NBTA member (Makes a point of telling people this, mostly to officials apart from MLC officals who they hide from) claims the Middle Level Commissioners have stolen their boat.

Moored at the boat yard in Worsley on the Bridgewater between 1985 to1988 while doing a proper degree at UMIST.

It is common to expect the address to include the postcode without the need for a prompt.

No I did not, Our local coal merchant uses one of the old type invoice books and hand wrote the invoice. He is one of the few people I known who is unable to use a computer. The requirement for the invoice were a unique identification number Pre printed Sellers name, address and contact information the customer name and address itemised list of fuel suppied the date the fuel was collect or delivered the date of the invoice the amount(s) being charged VAT amount if applicable the total amount owed Most of us when buying fuel from a shop or boat yard will only get a bog standard till receipt, if you get one at all. Itemised till receipts were rejected as the customers name and address was not on it.

The Becket Park moorings are run by the local council. It was enforced to start with, not long afterwards council staff were offered free swining lessons by some of the overstayers. Council staff now refuse to do enforcement on the moorings and local police are not interested

Just had a email from the Energy Bills Support Scheme, informing me that my application for the £400 rebate has been successful. On the downside the application for the £200 Alternative Fuels Payment (AFP) has been turned due to the two handwritten invoices for coal being rejected.

When were you imprisoned in Colditz Castle?

Freemen of the land are a loose group of individuals who adhere to pseudolegal concepts and conspiracy theories implying that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws. They believe that they can therefore declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, holding that the only "true" law is their own idiosyncratic interpretation of "common law".[3] The name "freeman on the land" describes a person who is literally a "free man" on the land where they live.[4] The freeman on the land movement also advocates schemes to avoid taxes which it considers to be illegitimate. Mostly focus on economic reasons, such as avoiding Council Tax, motor vehicle registration and insurance, television licence fees, mortgages, and other debts. Both terms are used

If a marina does not have it's own feeder, boats are using CRT water to float, the bed of the marina may be private owned. The water to fill it will be from the canal or river that it is connected to. That is why in some older marinas you don't need a licence as they have their own feeders.

One long queue of traffic from the Baker's Arms roundabout back to Wareham round the bypass, half way to Corfe Castle on a Sunday afternoon in the summer. Often quicker to sail down the River Frome to the harbour pass the old Marine Base at Hamworthy and round to Poole Yacht Club, 10 minuites walk over the lifting bridge and your in Poole old town. The sailing dinghy, only way to get around in good weather.

It does have a number of rivers you can sail, It's rather like the Broads, a mix of sail and motorboats. Many never go out to sea pass the chain ferry. The shore line around the harbour is over a 100 miles, it's said to be quicker to walk to London than it is to walk round the shoreline.

Just had a look at the online claim form for the £200 alternative fuel payment, there is a catch, as your required to upload at least £200 of invoices with your name and address on. As most just buy one or two bags at a time and don't get a invoice when they buy coal or gas. They not get a rebate.

Poole Harbour in Dorset has round 10000 boats moored within the harbour limits, that includles swing , bankside and (11 sites) marina moorings. It is the largest natural harbour in the world since Sydney harbour reclaimed so much land from its harbour.

They still do, as council tax benefit does not cover the full amount, how much they are expected to pay depends on the council. In Fenland it is 23% of the bill.

Your behind the times, band A here in the Fens is £1477.19. Anyone hanging around on the towpath in Hebden Bridge and not paying council tax are £1,311.78 better off. In a effect they have had the rebate more than twice.

If you have a traditional prepaid meter your supplier would have sent you a voucher each month by post, text or email. With smart prepayment meters the rebate would be sent directly to the meter.

I have to agree, I could buy a few years supply of fuel for heating for what I payout for moorings and council tax each year.

Nouveau riche rather than Nouveaux Pauvres

I think they did it this way to get round the fact that not the same mooring is used each time, every time the boat goes out or is moved by the marina. They are about 40 boats on mooring B (Short for mooring basin B).