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4 hours ago, Rob-M said:

I presume given the sign writing it is Paper Mill lock on the Chelmer and Blackwater navigation.

It’s actually Beeleigh Lock below which the Chelmer leaves the navigation over Beeleigh Weir 

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On 22/06/2020 at 15:35, Bee said:

One of the very few remaining berrichons, 2013 - somewhere in France.

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Blue Berry was the home of French waterway historian Charles Berg, who has written a number of books, at least two using his own excellent drawings. He has produced images of all the many closed/disappeared locks, all including a lock keepers daughter in a traditional French manner. His website of French waterways is excellent: http://projetbabel.org/fluvial/index.htm

 

A new wooden berrichon attended the Festival du Loire last September. It is not this one.

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18 minutes ago, Pluto said:

 His website of French waterways is excellent: http://projetbabel.org/fluvial/index.htm

I've not checked to see if it is still available but he used to produce an excellent CD showing all the barge types. The last working Berrichon I know of operated as a bunker ship on the Seine just along from the Quai d'Austerlitz in Paris. We fuelled from it in 1995, but sadly it finished in about 2000.

 

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2 hours ago, Tam & Di said:

I've not checked to see if it is still available but he used to produce an excellent CD showing all the barge types. The last working Berrichon I know of operated as a bunker ship on the Seine just along from the Quai d'Austerlitz in Paris. We fuelled from it in 1995, but sadly it finished in about 2000.

 

Tam

I am pretty certain the CD was taken from the boat section of his website. Below is one of Magpie Patrick's photos of the new berrichon when at Orlesn last September.

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26 minutes ago, Pluto said:

Below is one of Magpie Patrick's photos of the new berrichon when at Orlesn last September.

 

There used to be two retired ex-trading berrichons on the Loire at the end of the short branch from the canal down onto the river at St Thibault, near Sancerre. They had been converted as a restaurant/bar, but were condemned by the local authorities and eventually broken up 15-18 years ago despite efforts to retain them.

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