Bangor Etc c1965-68 Stoke

[mark99]

[junior]

Tarporley on the left? What's in the middle?

Is that somewhere at Longport?

[fittie]

Apple?

[junior]

5 minutes ago, fittie said:

Apple?

Yes, registered in Northwich in 1958 number 46.

[Heartland]

The canal seems crowded and the material on the left is that some form of flint for the pottery industry

 

 

[magnetman]

The boat in the distance is interesting. Probably a camera trick but it looks wider than a standard narrow. 

 

Odd that the tiller is not central as usually they are weighted to return to the middle. Maybe it is tied. 

[David Mack]

This is the same location as in the Winifred at Wharf Street thread some 30 years later.

1930s:

1960s:

[Jubbly]

On 23/11/2023 at 12:51, mark99 said:

 

Dolby's Pottery Stoke - waiting to unload feldspar loaded at Weston Point

[Jen-in-Wellies]

13 hours ago, David Mack said:

This is the same location as in the Winifred at Wharf Street thread some 30 years later.

1930s:

1960s:

The offside moorers have moved on some time in the intervening thirty years! You could recreate either photo surprisingly closely today with suitable boats.

[Heartland]

In which case, it is reasonable to see a number of boats here as Wharf Street had canal warehouses and seemingly the narrow boats were connected with the merchandise trade.

 

[Jubbly]

On 23/11/2023 at 12:51, mark99 said:

 

George Radford on Tarporley, Jack Roberts and Mrs Roberts on Apple, Janet & Muriel Harris on the emptied motor Bilster and George Harris sitting in the hatches of their butty Angel. Jack Roberts later became the lock keeper at Bosley.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Jubbly said:

 

George Radford on Tarporley, Jack Roberts and Mrs Roberts on Apple, Janet & Muriel Harris on the emptied motor Bilster and George Harris sitting in the hatches of their butty Angel. Jack Roberts later became the lock keeper at Bosley.

 

 

 Sorry, Charley Roberts - not Jack.

[spud]

4 hours ago, Jubbly said:

 

George Radford on Tarporley, Jack Roberts and Mrs Roberts on Apple, Janet & Muriel Harris on the emptied motor Bilster and George Harris sitting in the hatches of their butty Angel. Jack Roberts later became the lock keeper at Bosley.

 

Sorry, Charley Roberts - not Jack.

deffo not bilster and angel that harrises are on as they are clearly not big woolwiches

Edited December 1, 2023 by spud

[Jubbly]

On 01/12/2023 at 14:31, spud said:

deffo not bilster and angel that harrises are on as they are clearly not big woolwiches

 

You are 'deffo' right! Didn't look properly. George Harris's motor is the Clematis and the butty a little station boat - Kidsgrove or Ditton I think. I reckon that's Colin on the butty's cabin top. George had the Bilster and the Angel after them. The loaded boat tied in front before the aqueduct looks like a Pimlotts motor.

 

So George Radford, Charley and Ellen Roberts and the Harris family.