Derek R.
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Not as strikingly similar as the tray, which is fantastic, but still a recognisable type. Built in the first half of the nineteenth century. I'm not suggesting any connection, only that these sorts of images were clearly fairly widespread.
Erm . . . not a tray, but a framed wall hanging picture. The glass is painted onto directly from behind, and so the foremost items need be painted on first, and the background last. Not easy.
Lovely paintings on the side glasses to the door - what Country?
Derek
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As we passed Norton Junction today I was reminded of the little cottage on the turn, which used to be occupied by Major and Mrs Fielding in their latter years.
My parents, being Salvation Army officers met the Fieldings a number of times and i was wondering if there was any reading material around re this particular outreach?
You will find a good piece on the Fieldings, they're work, and the Norton J. cottage here:
Scroll down to 'Barge Ministry'
Derek
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We would have been on 'Yarmouth' then, and with the old railway carriage styled cabin which got the chop in '86, so that narrows it down to '83, 84' or '85 - and I fancy one of the latter two.
Clearly a different set of roses on the cratch.
Derek
Yes - with Barnham.
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Just been rooting through the box and found another of Angel:
Derek
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It looks so small now. Compare those shots with these, taken in May 1990 and shortly after Major Fielding passed away:
A secluded hideaway. The slip for the missing narrow boat remains.
The extension now removed. Slipway bottom right.
Supplementary accommodation.
I remember passing by in the early eighties and being 'welcomed' by his Airedale. The Major was on the lawn and said not to worry, "You'll be safe as long as you're on the boat!" Pleasant exchanges were made.
Derek
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Tony Lewery's 'Flowers Afloat' is very informative. He mentions Victorian glass paintings being popular in the nineteenth century. We picked one up in Scotland a few years ago in a junk 'cave', so I thought it might be of some interest to post:
It measures approximately 24inches by 15. Crude, bold, with many of the features we see in canal decoration.
Derek
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An excellent read, along with 'No.1', the sequel.
Ta, might raid the 'piggy'.
D.
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I've just tried to re read Narrow Boat for about the 20th time and I just can't get into it. I'd go so far as to say it's hard work, and not very enjoyable. I can't put my finger on why though.
Anyone else share this view?
I am currently reading "Voyage into England" by John Seymour (ebay £6.00). It's great and has the following pearl of wisdom:
"I don't see why the canals should "pay", The lane that leads from my house to the village doesn't "pay". The canals are merely lanes and roads, that's all. They should be treated as other lanes and roads and kept up as part of the general transport system of the country".
I like that.
I also noticed whilst re reading Number One the other day the first mention of global warming that I can think of. This book was written in 1991. How very modern.
'Voyage into England'? I have 'Sailing Through England' by the same author, travels in a Dutch Botter.
I think 'Narrow Boat' is best read and perhaps appreciated more by folk new to the cut, but even then, there will be some who can't get into it. I enjoyed it, but struggle with it many years later. In complete contrast, I can pick up Rolt's 'Landscape With Canals' any time and be totally absorbed. Perhaps because it's more matter of fact than a deliberate romantic portrayal.
'Bread Upon the Waters' is good, but what of 'Anderton For Orders' by Tom Foxon? That's one I haven't read.
Shiela Stewart's 'Ramblin Rose' breaks a few tinted glasses and rightly so, but read her other title 'Lifting the Latch' - nothing to do with canals, but a poignant story of life in an agricultural community.
Global warming/cooling's been around since the Earth began, only the hype is modern.
Derek
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Hi
Sorry I can't add anything positive, date wise, to this thread about the address change. Alan Faulkner will doubtless have more info and I think he collaborated with Robert Wilson in the booklet "The George and the Mary" which details GUCCC history...but I can't find my copy to check it out.
Cheers
Dave Moore
Just scanning through my copy, snippets;
March 1934 Associated Canal Carriers launch an ambitious expansion program. Company name changed to GUCCCo Ltd.
At the end of 1936 an internal disagreement about the expansion program brought about several management changes. In November a new managing director was appointed, and 100 pairs to be worked, while the remainder were to be laid up at Stockley dock until required. As a result of the disagreement the manager resigned, and the chairman did likewise in April 1937.
By March 1937, almost 70 pairs were laid up in Stockley and Cumberland basin.
November 1938, all laid up boats moved to Harefield, where many remained for several years.
In 1937 [not specific] a patriotic red white and blue was adopted.
During the War years - maroon and blue.
January 1 1948 - Nationalisation
Taken from Alan H Faulkner's 'The George and The Mary' published by Robert Wilson, 1973.
PS There's no mention of dates for address changes, and I wonder if there was a change. The headed company paper states Seething Lane EC3 with a Royal 5630 telephone number, while on the side of Merope we have 20 Bucklersbury phone City 4755, but the three wheeled service van in attendance states 5 Lloyds Avenue EC3.
Wouldn't mind a little Ford Thames van liveried up so!
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Hi Derek,
(snip)
My OH has been trying to get hold of "Amateur Boatwoman", which I know we have seen on sale quite recently, but is proving a bit illusive.
I assume you may be heading to the Braunston bash ? Unfortunately we will be elsewhere that weekend.
Best wishes,
Alan
Hmm, I see Amazon are out. Tried Uxbridge? Library request might turn a copy up, at least for reading.
Ooh! - Stoke Bruerne museum shop?
Braunston yes. Ian and Tina are steering, I'm tagging along. Tried for it last year but beaten by Sunstroke (small hat/big head), hire boaters, and lack of on-board 'stuff'.
Cheers - Derek
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Moving on to Margaret Cornish's "Troubled Waters"
It seems they have shuffled the Marsworth locks a bit, then. (Perhaps she has been watching the Harry H Corbett film "The Bargee" which takes more than a few liberties with lock sequencing on the Grand Union.)
Just one page later...
I assume the three at Stoke Hammond are the "three locks" near Soulbury. So who's moved Stoke Hammond lock proper ?
And it's surely "Fenny", not "Fenney" if we are being really pedantic.
I'd like to put these down to fading memories of someone who was a volunteer during the war, but then had no involvement with the canals. However Margaret Cornish, under the name Margaret Ridout had the converted and motorised butty "Alphons" on the Grand Union, and really should have been more accurate about where the locks are.
Never took to 'Troubled Waters', Too much personality clash for me.
'Kit' Gayford's 'Amateur Boatwoman' is good.
'The Bargee' - despite the crass technical errors - I love it! Likewise with 'Painted Boats', we'd be poorer without them.
It's probable that "The Two" written of, though strictly speaking part of the Maffas flight, were being called such as they were - and still are by many - 'Peter's Two', after which follow the seven (Southbound).
Similarly, Soulbury Three is a comparatively modern term, they were always 'Stoke Hammond Three', and what is nowadays called Stoke Hammond lock was known as 'Talbot's'. The village of Stoke Hammond is also a little larger than Soulbury and a bit nearer the cut, which may have had something to do with it. If the village was nearer, it seems possible that the 'Three' would be associated with fetching a few supplies from the 'nearest' place. Bit of a calculated guess though.
Don't know why Fenny went to 'Fenney'. It was pronounced 'Finny', and if asking how is that spelt, there may have been some who would take a shot at it without knowing the correct way. Someone may have known there was an 'e' in it, but sounding like 'Finny', put one in after the 'n'. Though she only had to look at a map. But then if the map was old enough . . .
To a boatman, did it matter how it got spelt? There's lots now that don't carry their once 'common' names; Talbot's, Walker's, Chain, Five paddle, Corkett's two, Pool's, Neal's, Nags Head Three - that's Seabrook.
Only just found this forum, interesting crack. Bit slow on the NBOC Yahoo group.
Don't take me too seriously in word, though in appearance I may look a threatening old misery - can't help the way I look, quite happy for a leg-pull, but not too hard on the left one - NHS shrapnel.
Might meet some of you next weekend. Only been around the cut since '80, so I'm no boatman.
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Bambury ?
And indeed is still at Bulbourne.
(Third time I've been past, and still had no camera with me).
Will this do?
http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/Deg...MayPICT0118.flv
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I cannot remember the location or the year exactly, but clearly Christmas, and possibly Cowley. Barnham and Angel with domestic coal during John and Sue Yates ownership. Josh might have been a baby then, or on the way. Maybe something to do with the 'night-hood' on the tiller. Early eighties.
Derek
Roses and castles
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Couple of teasers, and most probably by owner boater painters.
The roses are knobstick style, not sure about the castle - anyone know?
Different again (same boat), poor condition.
And a really poor pic. of a Fred Winnet castle by Chris Lloyd - 'Yarmouth' '86