Hereford Bull Trow

[max's son]

Went for a walk in the sunshine today at Brockhampton Court Bromyard Herefordshire was surprised to find

the replica Trow built for the Queens Diamond jubilee in the new orchard there in the middle of a field.

 

Shame not on the water on the Severn or Droitwich Canal 

 

Hope not just left to rot

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Even better on the river Wye.

[Dav and Pen]

That’s a real shame does the farm own it?

[J R ALSOP]

Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?

[max's son]

2 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

That’s a real shame does the farm own it?

it is a national trust property no where near a river

 

1 hour ago, J R ALSOP said:

Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?

Built by Neilsens in Gloucester for the queens diamond jubilee for the river pageant 

[John Brightley]

This article says that it was built in 2012 and that "keeping it on the Wye was difficult" :

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/19023559.queens-pageant-trow-return/

 

[J R ALSOP]

2 hours ago, J R ALSOP said:

Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?

I should have said rebuilt, 

[max's son]

12 minutes ago, J R ALSOP said:

I should have said rebuilt, 

It was a new build in Gloucester

[zenataomm]

3 hours ago, J R ALSOP said:

Was that the one that was built at Nantwich about 40 years ago?

Ooh, it's Dutch is it?

[Jen-in-Wellies]

A modern replica of a design once used a lot on the River Wye. Hereford once built boats. The last one was called Water Witch. Don't have the book with the details here. A watercolour painting here from the 19th century shows one against the bank and another heading downstream with the mast down in preparation for going under the medieval bridge. The river traffic, before the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal was dug, or the railways came is probably why the Wye still has a right of navigation on it for a lot of its length, till it gets shallower above Hay.

The replica was used on the water a lot, including on the Wye after the Diamond Jubilee pageant, but suffered from the wooden boat problem of rot, so it's current location is possibly the least bad bet if no one else is prepared to keep up the maintenance and repair.

11 hours ago, zenataomm said:

Ooh, it's Dutch is it?

Not Dutch, British. There are only a certain number of ways of solving the "how to build a wooden cargo boat for shallow rivers" problem, so regional/national designs will have similarities as well as subtle differences.

[noddyboater]

36 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

 

Not Dutch, British. There are only a certain number of ways of solving the "how to build a wooden cargo boat for shallow rivers" problem, so regional/national designs will have similarities as well as subtle differences.

I believe Zenatoamm was referring to a previous thread about a "Dutch barge" built at Nantwich.