'Milton Maid' and 'Milton Queen'

[davidwheeler]

Does anyone remember these two commercial boats working on the Caldon? What happened to them after the work ceased? One, the Milton Maid I seem to remember being at one of the larger boatyards, but I cannot remember which or where, in the '80s or '90s. But what about the 'Queen'? Not particularly attractive propositions for conversion to pleasure cruising, but does anyone know? There was a third Milton boat used in transporting between porcelain factories but I don't recall it. At least, a brave attempt to make use of the waterway.

[haggis]

I remember seeing one of them moored at  streethay  wharf but not sure which one it was 

[David Mack]

The third boat was Milton Princess, built along more conventional narrow boat lines. It is now the trip boat Milton with the London Waterbus Company.

https://www.londonwaterbus.com/information

 

[zenataomm]

Flipped them over...

 

 

[frangar]

4 hours ago, haggis said:

I remember seeing one of them moored at  streethay  wharf but not sure which one it was 

I remember that too. Prob around 1997/98???

[billh]

I  remember seeing one of them being loaded  at one of the factories near Stoke, probably 1977. the goods were on trolleys wheeled onto the boat via a short ramp which was hinged I think to the boat and held vertically when under way. The  other boat was moored up at the other end of the journey . Much more recently on a visit to the Caldon , the unloading ( ?) point was still extant at the  derelict site of the factory.

[PeterScott]

 

4 Nov1993 Pottery being transported on Milton Maid on the Caldon Canal

 

 

Moored - 1977

 

On 30/03/2020 at 11:53, pete harrison said:

MILTON MAID was built 1967, MILTON QUEEN was built 1973 and MILTON PRINCESS was built 1978. MILTON PRINCESS was not particularly specialised as it had a conventionally built counter sterned narrow boat hull by Malcolm E. Braine, and is now the London based trip boat MILTON  

 

May1993

http://www.thepotteries.org/potworks_wk/hanley/imperial/boat.jpg

 

 

 

12Apr2002 Milton Maid outside StreethayWharf CoventryC

 

 

 

29March 2018 Streethay Wharf

 

 

 

26Mar2023 - with posts  still at Streethay

[Alstonite]

1st June 1973