Can anyone identify...

[carlt]

The Narrow Boat Trust's BOD took a close look at this issue about 10 years ago when there was a charities commission shake up and reinvented themselves to fit the charity parameters.....

It does surprise me that, what are essentially shared ownership clubs, get lottery funding and charitable contributions to do what so many other historic boat owners are doing, out of their own pocket.

 

If the Canalscape-BCN scheme is being run in the same vein as the H.F.Truman trust or the LNBP and I've misconstrued their "membership scheme" comment, completely, I will happily eat my words and put my hand in my pocket.

 

I still think BCN boats at risk should have been used, though.

[Tim Lewis]

Been looking through my photos from my early boating days and have found a few photos that I would like to add to my working boats photo project if only I could identify them:

 

01 This one was taken at Athestone in September 1986:

 

 

02 Coventry canal 1st January 1986 (Butty is 'Cheam')

 

 

03 Taken at the same time (01/01/86)

 

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Tim

Edited September 10, 2008 by Tim Lewis

[Chris Pink]

01 This one was taken at Athestone in September 1986:

 

Is a small Ricky in remarkably good condition but which one i do not know. As the picture was taken at the same time as the book Walkers of Ricky came out (ish i think) then the list in the back may well identify it.

[Paul H]

The inside boat at Atherstone is Buckden. The outside boat is possibly Hesperus but it does look smarter than I rember it in those days.

 

The boats on the Coventry Canal look to me like a Warwickshire Fly Boat Co staff outing. I'll show the pictures to Rex and Steve at Brinklow next week but I would guess it is either Birmingham or Greenock towing Cheam and Cassiopeia towing Bakewell.

 

Paul H

[Paul H]

Been looking through my photos from my early boating days and have found a few photos that I would like to add to my working boats photo project if only I could identify them:

 

01 This one was taken at Athestone in September 1986:

 

 

02 Coventry canal 1st January 1986 (Butty is 'Cheam')

 

 

03 Taken at the same time (01/01/86)

 

 

Any help appreciated.

 

Tim

 

Tim - your pictures have disappeared!

 

Paul H

[carlt]

He's just making it more of a challenge!

[Tim Lewis]

Tim - your pictures have disappeared!

 

Paul H

 

Sorry about that - was sorting out my pbase albumns when I accidentally deleted a folder instead of a picture - here they are again:

 

Athestone 1986

 

 

Coventry Canal 1st January 1986:

 

 

 

Tim

[Paul H]

Sorry about that - was sorting out my pbase albumns when I accidentally deleted a folder instead of a picture - here they are again:

 

Athestone 1986

 

 

Coventry Canal 1st January 1986:

 

 

 

Tim

 

OK, the definitive answer.

 

The boats at Atherstone are the Buckden and Hesperus as I thought. The boats on the Coventry Canal are Barrow (Dave Gunby) towing Cheam and Planet and Bakewell (Rex Wain.)

 

Confirmed by David and Rex today. They were on their way to the Ashby Canal and got iced up for 5 days at the Limekilns.

 

Paul H

Edited September 26, 2008 by Paul H

[Tim Lewis]

OK, the definitive answer.

 

The boats at Atherstone are the Buckden and Hesperus as I thought. The boats on the Coventry Canal are Barrow (Dave Gunby) towing Cheam and Planet and Bakewell (Rex Wain.)

 

Confirmed by David and Rex today. They were on their way to the Ashby Canal and got iced up for 5 days at the Limekilns.

 

Paul H

 

Thanks very much for these (Rex built the back cabin on Fulbourne)

 

Will put some more up soon!

 

Tim

[AMModels]

 

 

 

Three wooden boats I think they are Claytons (bit of a clue)

[Hairy-Neil]

Three wooden boats I think they are Claytons (bit of a clue)

 

Are they taken at Cowley???

[carlt]

Umea, Dane and the butty Monnow? (see earlier posts, in this thread)

[Derek R.]

Umea, Dane and the butty Monnow? (see earlier posts, in this thread)

 

Well, Umea doesn't look a lot different from when I remember it at Cowley (not brilliant), but Dane - that's a shock.

 

 

These shots were taken IIRC on the embankment between Cosgrove and the aqueduct twenty years ago, but what boat? Looks like a big Ricky. But I'm probably wrong.

 

 

[carlt]

Is this Hadfield? In the infamous Nick Sanders disguise.

 

Edited to say: There were only 17 cadbury boats.

Edited October 2, 2008 by carlt

[Derek R.]

Is this Hadfield? In the infamous Nick Sanders disguise.

 

Edited to say: There were only 17 cadbury boats.

 

Difficult to see, but the Reg. Bm No. looks like 76254, I haven't found that anywhere and wonder if it's not the BW No.

Hadfield was Reg. Rk 199. I don't know Nick Sanders - what was he infamous for, or shouldn't I ask?

 

Edit: Did he have a sweet tooth?

Edited October 3, 2008 by Derek R.

[carlt]

Nick Sanders is an adventurer, rtw cyclist and biker and took the pair "unspolit by progress" from the black country to the black sea. Also he is the king of the blag and an all round nice bloke.

 

Before the "unspoilt by progress" voyage he painted up the big Ricky "hadfield" in Cadburys colours. The rest of the tale may be too full of "allegedlies" to be readable.

[Hairy-Neil]

I recall seeing said boat at the IWA Waltham Abbey National Rally, 1989? and the horse that allegedly pulled it there.....

[Derek R.]

Well, Umea doesn't look a lot different from when I remember it at Cowley (not brilliant), but Dane - that's a shock.

 

Did anyone spot Dane being used as a trip boat in one of the 60's videos in the Beulah thread?

[BuckbyLocks]

Umea, Dane and the butty Monnow? (see earlier posts, in this thread)

 

Try 'Poplar' for the Cadbury Butty and the mystery Josher on the Shroppie several pages back looks a bit like 'Kangaroo' when she was on the T and M before rebuilding.

[carlt]

Try 'Poplar' for the Cadbury Butty and the mystery Josher on the Shroppie several pages back looks a bit like 'Kangaroo' when she was on the T and M before rebuilding.

Sorry, Poplar's had no front end, since coming out of the flashes and it was definitely Hadfield that was the phantom Cadbury boat.

[AMModels]

These aren't teasers for the testing, as I genuinely don't know, or have forgotten the names.

The following were taken in the late eighties during some distance cruising and they may well have changed since then.

 

No1. Somewhere on the Shroppie IIRC

 

I think this is the boat you are referring to, I tried to buy her at the same time as Mr Burge did and she was much rougher than that as I recall, could have been a few years before that tho. It does bear a passing resemblance to the garden she was moored at the bottom of.

[AMModels]

Another resurrection of an old thread, so shoot me....

 

Can anyone put names to these little bosters from Jem Bates yard?

 

 

I'll start with the easy one. Severn front left?

[The Bearwood Boster]

Bosters? I'm a Boster !

Trina(The Bearwood Boster).

[AMModels]

lol, I went all posh as the true pronunciation is Bosta in gods own country (BC)

[The Bearwood Boster]

Arr I know,but there was a pub known as The Boster,so the spelling is accepted.

Trina(Dudley teacher training college,schools in Coseley,Gornal,Tipton & Smethwick).

Edited September 17, 2015 by The Bearwood Boster