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Foamy days recalled. On the Trent this was commonly a problem. Lurking on the froth astern of the Greendale are three other craft, bound for Boston for a cargo of timber to be brought back to Leicester. These were the Leeds & Liverpool barge Bertha, in the hands of the redoubtable J K Ebblewhite, and narrow boats Malta and Grace, operated by Jack Monk and family. They would later be joined by Jaguar and Crater, seen on that return trip, passing through Lincoln.

 

The further photo shows a useful-looking basin in Leicester, being made into a desert, as Robert Aickman used to put it.

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2 minutes ago, John Liley said:

Foamy days recalled. On the Trent this was commonly a problem. Lurking on the froth astern of the Greendale are three other craft, bound for Boston for a cargo of timber to be brought back to Leicester. These were the Leeds & Liverpool barge Bertha, in the hands of the redoubtable J K Ebblewhite, and narrow boats Malta and Grace, operated by Jack Monk and family. They would later be joined by Jaguar and Crater, seen on that return trip, passing through Lincoln.

 

The further photo shows a useful-looking basin in Leicester, being made into a desert, as Robert Aickman used to put it.

Trent.jpeg

Trent 1.jpeg

Trent 2.jpeg

Trent 3.jpeg

Sorry, I should have said Lincoln. JL

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On this day in 2013

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Useful advance warning of crane operations ...

 

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... to move new lockgates into place ...

 

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... at Apperley Bridge locks L&L, but sadly ...

 

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spacer.png... the job did not go all that well.

 

Nobody was hurt.

 

The crane had come across a temporary road across adjacent fields, as the towingpath was not wide enough.

 

The turn on to the towingpath above the locks required some manoeuvring, and it's on a slight embankment, which began to give way sufficently slowly for the driver to make good his escape before the crane turned-turtle

 

A cofferdam was subsequently built to remove as much water as possible from the crane.

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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1985

 

 

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My first view of the UK was an early morning very cold arrival in October 1974 on the 1932 built Britanis to one of the more distant berths in the photo.

The Sagafjord followed us in and berthed astern and the QE2 was already alongside, with her original white funnel shroud, closer in.

It was the days when even the 900 passengers disembarking passengers still justified a dedicated boat train from the adjacent quay. The Britanis was immediatly towed away to dry dock even before we had commenced our journey into London. Our heavy luggage was unloaded later from dry dock and required retrieval from Southampton. The Britanis then  began her new life cruising out of Miami for the next nearly twenty years becoming almost the foundation vessel for Celebrity Cruises. She escaped scrapping by diving beneath the South Atlantic whilst under tow to an Asian scrapper, joining her partner ship Austalis in dodging the same fate by similar means.

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