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Kez

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  1. 11 hours ago, Francis Herne said:

    I'm glad she's gone to a good home! Staying as a trip boat, or will you be taking the extended cabin off and doing something else with her?

    She's having a new cabin but staying tripping!

     

     

    11 hours ago, Francis Herne said:

    (convention notwithstanding, it feels odd to call a boat named after a man 'she' 🙃)

    To you perhaps, ive grown up with an androgynous Humphrey among other boats 😂

     

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  2. 8 hours ago, Francis Herne said:

    Some of the ones with welded 'rivets' look fairly convincing above the waterline - and a lot of original boats seem to have welded replacement bottoms/footings anyway! I've heard about the costs of hot riveting these days, can't imagine it being viable for a new build.

     

    EDIT: I suppose a replica Severner could be welded and still historically accurate? Strange boats though.

     

    EDIT 2: I saw "Anson" come up for sale recently - with a welded steel hull and 6'10 beam, the 'Admirals' seem more practical than older working boats. Not the most beautiful, although when I passed "Effingham" it did look imposing with its shiny BW paint job. Anson's big passenger-boat cabin and rather bashed hull put me off looking closer which I kind of regret now.

     

    So far I think I'd prefer a boat with an actual history, even if that does come with a stack of headaches. I can't give a rational reason why though. My father was an archaeologist and my other hobby is ringing church bells (and looking at the architecture) so I was probably just raised to appreciate old things. 🙂

    Anson is very glad you overlooked her cos she's my baby now 😎

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  3. 13 minutes ago, frangar said:

    Get some signs up saying you are now the new owner!…even if that’s just a contact number…and publicise it on here & social media!

     

     

    I like to think I’ve got my ear to the towpath telegraph but I didn’t know you’d taken it over. 
     

    Best of luck and I look forward to calling in when you are operational. 

    I'm in the process of painting up our new signs, as soon as they're done they'll be everywhere!
    We're hoping to have a proper opening 'do' when we get everything unpacked, so watch this space 😁

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  4. 8 hours ago, Paul H said:

    I have them all!
     

    9 down is a modern term, working boatman used the term for something else!

     

    Decorative rope work on front of boat is found on the cratch.

     

    Paul

     

    P.S.  You shouldn’t stand on the counter to steer.

    Cut me some slack, I was running out of word ideas ?

     

    I can provide the answer sheet should anyone want it ?

  5. 2 seperate boaters state Crick is upping prices for live aboards stopping mail and removing waste oil facility ?

    One of boaters said he has now left after many happy years .

    Hopefully not true .[/q]

     

    Crick is indeed upping prices. You can now have a "leisure mooring" or "Gold mooring". As is my understanding, a gold mooring entitles you to a shed space, a post box, a parking space, laundry, wifi and unlimited time on your boat while its just on its mooring.

    Oil disposal is also gone.

  6. Any sensible comparison of the price of goods between now and the 19th century is impossible. As proved above, a sewing machine purchased in 1920 may still be in use today. My grandmother (born 1886) had a Frister Rossmann hand-cranked sewing machine and that may have been inherited. Clothes were comparitively expensive and most 'working class' girls sewed their new dresses from patterns (e.g. Pattons) and, especially during the war years, 'made do and mended'; even a trained, male soldier was able to darn his socks or sew on a button.

     

    In the post-war '50s my large Junior School liked to have all the pupils in school uniform. For the girls this was a gingham dress in their house colour. My superb form teacher, Miss Henderson, would set a task for all fifty of us and spend the time ripping bulk-bought gingham into lengths suitable for mothers to make into dresses. Grey cotton shirts and flannel shorts for the boys were far too complicated for the average home seamstress to produce.

     

    Thus the minidress was so successful in the 1960s! It is nice to see the old skills being maintained but, today, a short length of material or a few skeins of wool will cost much more than a ready-made garment.

     

    Alan

    You can spend as little or as much on fabric; old curtains, end-of-rolls, or even (don't judge :lol:) plus size garments can all provide low cost fabric.

    I made a full length, bustle train ball gown out of curtain to the grand cost of £7...

  7. Differences in paint composition of today and of that mythical time of " back then" would surely make complete mimicry of an old paint job nigh on impossible anyway; not to mention that the boat is now in a different job - she's now an advert for the museum and for the skills of those who worked on her, not just a floating HGV.

     

    I reckon a big well done is in order :D (even if you have pinched my favoured scheme back ;))

  8. Mum always used a Tilley Paraffin Iron, up to the point when she stopped obsessively ironing everything :P

    Seeing as she wont let me have it though, I personally have to use a flat iron.

     

    I believe that Phillips make a 'leccy friendly iron though

  9. Might do ;) . Let me see.

     

    Ta daa. Best I've got.

     

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    It was a lettering style I devised myself, though obviously based on similar letter forms. I used it on all the narrowboats, though I changed the colours in 1977 to red and blue with cream lining as noted earlier. I think I've put this shot of Bicester at Stocker's on before, in an interim colour scheme, coming back down from the dry dock at Bulbourne.

     

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    (I can't work out how to make the image larger!)

     

     

    Excellent stuff chaps, I may be pinching that style for some bits on my gang :lol:

  10. Nantwich is it ,down the lift on the weaver , think you were just leaving a little marina on the right through the bridge with the toilets /elsan next to it.

     

    the merry month of may i think.

     

     

    Ah yes, I remember. That was my dad you saw. I'm afraid I mistook your question about Liam as looking for him for some nefarious reason! (It had been a very bad morning :lol:)

  11. That sounds a plan....I have found this on the Bridgewater Canal website:

     

     

    BARTON AQUEDUCT OPENING TIMES 2012

     

    2012 opening times for Barton Aqueduct are as follows:

     

    1st April 2012 to 30th September 2012 from 9.15 am to 9.00 pm

     

    1st October 2012 to 31st December 2012 incl 9.15 am to 4.30 pm

     

     

     

     

    Does anyone know if they swing the tank overnight as was suggested in a post on here back in 2006?

     

    http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3688

     

    Cheers

     

    Gareth

     

    No, is the quick answer :lol: The tank doesn't move much at all these days, but I'd advise you ring Mike Webb (the Bridgewater canal company man) on 0161 629 82 66

  12. Joe is now under my care, in lease terms. I hope never to part with her! :lol:

    Do you have any other photo's of the guagings Mark? Turns out Butty was only 10 numbers away from Joey, she was 118, Joe was 108

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