Heritage Boats

[Liam]

I have been looking around, mostly on the internet, for a while now for a group or society related to the running and maintenance of heritage boats in and around my area (Manchester) but alas, there appear to be none. The ones I've seen along the lines of something I'm interested in, is The Working Boats Project and also The Narrowboat Trust but these are either based mainly in Brum, or south of.

 

Can anyone help?

[Tim Lewis]

I have been looking around, mostly on the internet, for a while now for a group or society related to the running and maintenance of heritage boats in and around my area (Manchester) but alas, there appear to be none. The ones I've seen along the lines of something I'm interested in, is The Working Boats Project and also The Narrowboat Trust but these are either based mainly in Brum, or south of.

 

Can anyone help?

 

Boat museum society

http://www.boatmuseumsociety.org.uk/

 

Wooden canal boat Society

http://www.wcbs.org.uk/

 

Tim

[madrilin]

Boat museum society

http://www.boatmuseumsociety.org.uk/

 

Wooden canal boat Society

http://www.wcbs.org.uk/

 

Tim

 

 

Please note that The Wooden Canal Boat Society email address is now:

 

woodencanalboat@live.co.uk

 

This hasn't yet been updated on our website! Will be done as soon as I can get in touch with our webmaster.

[classicstove]

You may want to ahve a look at:

 

http://www.narrowboattrust.org.uk/index.html

 

as I uderstand the boats get around all the canal system

[Rick-n-Jo]

You might also consider The Horseboating Society (click for website) whose regular boat is "Maria" which is based at Guide Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne.

 

Sue Day is always after crew for her horse drawn journeys, no exp required, and I'm sure that the Ashton Packet Boat Company who own and maintain her (among others) would welcome help.

 

(btw,it's Maria that APBCo own and maintain, not Sue Day. I don't know who maintains her!

 

 

Rick