William Stevens barge or not?

[davidwheeler]

I took this photo in 1972 on the River Wey believing it to be a former Stevens barge, three years after the trade stopped. But is it? I noted at the time a smaller barge called Fly, but that indeed looked to be too small to be one of the three Stevens barges, of which as I recall, there were still a couple moored up, perhaps as residential boats, further towards Guildford. 

[Pluto]

It certainly looks like one.

[magnetman]

Yes it does. Dapdune wharf in Guildford have one on the bank and another in the water. 

 

 

[davidwheeler]

I ask because I thought it was, yet I recall someone during the last fifty years telling me that it wasn't, but a Basingstoke Canal barge.