Derek R.

A very vivid imagination.

Please don't let your friend make something like this: http://www.pamelasmusic.co.uk/Library/narrowboat.htm

1964 - one gallon of Super Cleveland Discol with 'Alcohol' - 4s/11d. Less than 25p a gallon (4.546 litres for those inclined that way). But on £9 a week pay, and £2. 10s to Mum for keep. Good job I didn't drink or smoke, most of my money went in the bikes tank. In 1980, married second wife, lived on a big Dutchman, paid £30 a month mooring fees and had £9.00 in the bank with 50p jammed in a moneybox. (We got it out in the end, and bought a Swiss roll to celebrate.)

Was it this one? Taken in 1983.

Speaking of which - one from my own collection, sorry - can't remember the year. I think the knitting session was disturbed.

I like the last one . . . !

The dates will be the defining factors as well as knowing what engines were in at the time. Were the RN engines fitted with central exhausts? and in front of the pigeon box?

"We are" you banned? Were you banned! He probably wasn't old enough.

I think most of your comment was in response to Rose Narrowboats. My extraction was in the element applying to the trick of kicking a gate open from the centre of the mitre. 😉

Agreed. You can stand on the mitre and kick one gate open with ease, then step off and open the other.

It's close. Both THEOPHILUS and SICKLE have the riveted on support bracket for the blade in exactly the same place. Both had the rocking bar fixed to a plate on the front engine room bulkhead that was raised above the roof. TYCHO and SEXTANS were fixed below the roof line directly against the bulkhead. But the images I have of Alf Best steering SICKLE show an air intake in front of the pigeon box - facing forward. But when was that arrangement fitted? I would plump for THEOPHILUS.

The 'other' HAZEL is a Wooden header. I believe it has been the subject of a restoration up near Dukinfield IIRC.

Maybe the "softness" gave way to Bramble growth. HAZEL was up for sale some time back. I recall seeing it around Hemel/Berko one time. Might have been when I was still on the buses, or it may have been later.

I did - 7 miles is 36,960 feet, how on Earth did they survive? "1862 when the British Association arranged for two scientists, James Glaisher and Henry Coxwell, to attempt an altitude record for a balloon. They attained a record height of seven miles and almost died of Hypoxia inthe process" Seems they did!

Pity the prop and shaft don't get mated to the engine.

Liverpool? Thanks for that - fascinating document. Gas Works were all over the place during my childhood.

A boat grasping the straws of history. Barely. Precious little to 'save', and enormous expense to correct the ample errors of judgement carried out over the years. Doubtless DIWE & BWB made use of it for a while, but the back end; fore end; and that entire cabin have sealed its fate. I see NBOC have it as originally being built as a 'motor' as early as 1907? Yet as DRUNKEN DUCK a build date as 1924. It's clearly had a tortured life. Or should that be 'torchered'?

Well, it looks a tad better on that FB page than it did when NBOC got a couple of images. It's a bit frightening nonetheless. I'm not in Facebook, but the link took me there. Not that I'll be going again.

I guess you could say it's a 'regional' title when many Wagtails frequent areas of water. Pied; Yellow; Grey; Water. They are largely insectivors, and insects are found near and in water. And how about Willow Wren? Which is a misnomer, as it generally is referred to as the Willow Warbler. I think Willow Wren - the company - most likely chose birds that had an affinity to water, rather than strict and direct associations with water. Dipper definitely, and Mallard? Not so much Kestrel maybe. The Wagtail can also be found frequenting motorway service area car parks, where they scavenge for small morsels of cast off crumbs from the less edible fodder available for humans - the Car Park Wagtail. We have some in the farmyard. Alway bugs there. 😉 https://www.shutterstock.com/search/water-wagtail

Amongst the Wagtails there is a Water Wagtail, and a Pullet is a young hen, as in female chicken.

Understood.

I cannot help but wonder why the OP has asked the question. Curiosity? Or some other reason?

Take a look through the LMS boats in the NBOC historic pages, especially BALTIC (not the ice boat); RAT and OCEAN. https://hnbc.org.uk/lms (No Station names there Mr. Fincher . . . "Second class ticket to Ethel please, changing at Rat.") But several did get Station names as the NBOC page states. The LMS Railway boats were used between interchange basins. One of their features is a longer foredeck than most long distance boats. Generally nice fore ends.

Brilliant stuff. Our first daughter was born in Aylesbury, and for a season I worked with Bob Moore who was Aylesbury Amplifying Services, supplying sound and communication equipment to shows, fete's, and horse events not just in Aylesbury, but much farther afield. His base was his home in Stone. My familiarity with the basin only started in 1979, so I missed the covered warehouses, though the crane was still there (moved from its original site I believe). It was a thriving little community through the eighties. The town scenes are very familiar as I drove London Country buses on 301 and Green Line 706 from 1970. The Wharf. The Ship Inn far left, with Jackson's bakery behind. Beyond the boats is where Kingfisher House was built. The huts were thought to be those associated with Harvey Taylor's business.

Welcome to the forum. A simple typo probably, but it's Yarwoods, not Yarwards. Both Yarwoods and Harland & Wolff built hundreds of working narrow boats during the 1930's and as plans will show, they were mostly 71' 6" in length overall - but not including the rudder blade or any fenders. Generally these are commonly referred to as seventy footers or 'full length'. But for all I know you may have this information, so apologies if this sounds pedantic. As such, it would seem most likely that the 'Station' boats would also be built to the same lengths. Why 71' 6"? Possibly because the maximum length available within a lock on much of the system was 72', builders would maximise on length to accomodate as much hold space as possible.