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tarboat

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  1. Thanks. Yes, Simpson Davies has to be the answer.
  2. I have had this image for some time. It was taken at Runcorn in the early 1950s and shows a couple of six plank boats. One belongs to Jonathan Horsefield Limited, but who owned the Wye behind? It is registered 1158, presumably at Manchester. The kids on the Marjorie have spotted the camera!
  3. This photograph pre-dates the electric tug and therefore cannot be 1920-25. The boat is likely to be going through the old tunnel. When the tug was introduced a large semi-circular fender was built in order to guide the boats on tow into the tunnel. That is not present in this photo.
  4. Farmer's Friend was Bowers & Thorley fleet No.1. There are photos of this boat painted differently. Here is another view of the same trip taken at Flint Mill Lock The chap in the background holding a pipe is familiar but I can't put a name to him at the moment. It isn't Primrose Thorley who was one of the owners. I love the upturned tiller to enable the standing steerer to see over the crowd on the image above.
  5. It took me a while to recognise this view of Middlewich as the buildings in the background have either changed dramatically with a faux half-timber frontage, or been demolished. The Boar's Head to the left of the white-fronted building is still recognisable.
  6. Are there any businesses out there who would collect and scrap a steel narrowboat. What do people usually do when a boat comes to the end of its economic life?
  7. January 1975. c1969. Taken from the Spey.
  8. A great loss to the waterways of Ireland, his knowledge is irreplaceable. Such a nice man too. A view of Brian at the wheel of his beloved Knocknagow in a squall on Lough Derg.
  9. Presumably that would be this firm in 1832.
  10. It would have helped if Mac had written Bradley Locks instead of Brades which is somewhere entirely different. We know what he meant though. ?
  11. The boundary with the gasworks is the dotted line. It does seem that the high walls were not there in 1913 but by the time of the photo they formed the edge of the coal bunkers.
  12. That's it Mike! To the right is the Metropolitan Water Works, ahead with the chimney is a power station and to the left are the coal bunker walls of the gasworks. The map shows the scene at the 1913 revision - red arrow showing the angle that the photographer took. Thanks for your assistance, much appreciated. o
  13. Sadly it isn't the Kensington Canal which was largely gone in the mid c19th.
  14. I found this photo showing a broad canal being infilled above a lock in the midst of what looks like an ironworks. I have been unable to determine the location. I did think it might be the Nutbrook Canal at Stanton but have now discarded that idea. Any suggestions as to where this is?
  15. Although the original image seems to have been deleted I can confirm that Laurence's photo showed the Coke or Glede ovens just south of Rowley Stop on the Dudley No.2 line at Grid Ref SO958876 c1919.
  16. My collection of photographs of maintenance craft on the Ashton, Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canals has a number of images showing boats in the late 1940s and 1950s with fleet numbers in various series. For example the motor Joel was CS9NW and President CS15NW, Medic RB16NW, Trojan RB46NW, Istrian or Tyrian was DH6NW, the little transom-sterned cruiser Monty was BM1NW, Weed Cutter Scythia was WC2NW. Does anyone know what the prefix letters meant for each series? I can surmise that RB might mean repair boat and that DH means Dredging Hopper as both Istrian and Tyrian were hand dredge boats and WC is weed cutter, but I can't think what CS means or even BM. It would be great if someone has found a BW accountants asset list for the period that lists these boats. I haven't noticed anything in the archives but it could be easily missed. Cheers,
  17. On the Trent and Mersey Canal in the first half of the nineteenth century most traders appear to have carried on a credit basis with an account being submitted to them every so often for payment of all tolls incurred over that period. It is clear that there were cases when cash on the nail was required if a carrier's credit was not good, but this does seem to have been the exception. This would also reduce the amount of cash in the hands of boat captains and passing to toll collectors along with the temptations that go with it. Many carriers supplied details of the cargo on their own printed notes, and if those were not available, then any old bit of paper or another carrier's paperwork with the heading altered would do. These were issued for each individual consignment and thus the paperwork was voluminous. The permits issued by the canal company were signed at each checking point. Some examples below, starting with the permit and the signatures of the toll clerks.
  18. For anyone interested in the use of the boatlift at Anderton, this is a page from the lift log book for September-October 1908. It shows the number of lifts per day and also the number of boats up and down in each caisson.
  19. I have discussed the purpose of these two buildings with a mate who worked for BW and spent some time at the lift. He is adamant that they were never toll offices. Each one had a fireplace and was probably used as a shelter for lift staff in earlier days. They also contained switchgear connected to the operation of the lift. However, the operation of the lift was conducted entirely from the control cabin high up at the top of the structure. The toll office was above the lift on the Trent & Mersey and the restored buildings were not used for this purpose.
  20. I have scanned a few more shots that were taken of the Sneyd Branch when I visited in March 1984.
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