Barges at Castlefield

[CanalWalker]

Any one know the name of the L&L boats at Castlefield? One is the Irwell the other has no name painted on it...

[NB Alton]

Have a search here under "Manchester Barge" & a thread about BOAT ID Manchester http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=43085&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Cheers, Brian

[Pluto]

Have a search here under "Manchester Barge" & a thread about BOAT ID Manchester http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=43085&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Cheers, Brian

Please note, they are BOATS not BARGES.

[The Bagdad Boatman (waits)]

Or they are short boat if you want to be picky. unless they are longer than 62ft then they are sometimes called Liverpool flats. As they traded from Liverpool to Wigan and then up the Bridgewater they where too long to go up the Wigan flight and down the Rufford branch

Edited January 17, 2012 by The Bagdad Boatman (waits)

[NB Alton]

Oh I do like this forum ;-)

[CanalWalker]

I did not have a tape measure with me.

[Pluto]

Or they are short boat if you want to be picky. unless they are longer than 62ft then they are sometimes called Liverpool flats. As they traded from Liverpool to Wigan and then up the Bridgewater they where too long to go up the Wigan flight and down the Rufford branch

Flats are more usually the sailing vessels or deeper dumb boats used around the Mersey Estuary and Irish Sea. The Bridgewater, Rochdale, Sankey and SUC had flats, but it would be unusual, and to some extent incorrect, to call a L&LC boat a flat, as a flat is a development of a barge. The term short boat was not used extensively by boatmen on the L&LC, as they all knew the length of the boat they were talking about, and didn't have to be reminded - or am I being pedantic about not being pedantic?