Stabling on Barges

[Heartland]

The RCHS Waterways History Group has featured an example of stables provided on craft travelling along Irish Waterways. I wonder if there were examples on English Waterways or Scottish Waterways. It may be understandable on certain Irish Navigations as craft crossed quite large bodies of water in land.

 

On a related issue, we did have horse ferries across rivers so that horses could be transported from one side to the other, I believe the Trent and Soar had such a ferry to enable boat horses to pass from Soar Navigation to the Trent Navigation and Erewash Canal. There were others on the River Severn.

 

Ray Shill

[Pluto]

This was the ferry at Thwaite Mill, just below Leeds on the A&CN, which could have been used for carrying horses across the navigation.

 

[Derek R.]

Not forgetting the one on the Thames at Lambeth, the road to which is still called Horseferry Road.

 

About stabling aboard, I only know of the French Berrichons which had some sort of facility for the animal.

[Tam & Di]

 

About stabling aboard, I only know of the French Berrichons which had some sort of facility for the animal.

 

Berrichons were based on the Canal du Berry which linked to the main Freycinet network at Marseilles les Aubigny, and were the nearest French canal craft to a narrowboat, being 90' x 9'. Generally towed by mules, which were stabled on board in a central shed.

 

 

 

[The Pipe]

From other photo's I've seen the mules had better conditions than the boatmen.

It would be a nice canal if restored.

[Derek R.]

Wonderful postcards.

[Tam & Di]

From other photo's I've seen the mules had better conditions than the boatmen.

It would be a nice canal if restored.

 

People are trying - the main problem are the fishermen who've had it to themselves for a long time now. Also some section are filled in and most of the locks chambers have been turned into weirs.

 

On-board stabling worked OK with wooden boats, but horse urine didn't do iron hulls a of of good.

[Timleech]

People are trying - the main problem are the fishermen who've had it to themselves for a long time now. Also some section are filled in and most of the locks chambers have been turned into weirs.

 

On-board stabling worked OK with wooden boats, but horse urine didn't do iron hulls a of of good.

I remember being rather surprised passing a 38m peniche which was tied at Strasbourg to see a horse on board. Didn't look like horse built for towing, though.

 

Tim

Edited November 22, 2013 by Timleech

[Beaker]

I remember being rather surprised passing a 38m peniche which was tied at Strasbourg to see a horse on board. Didn't look like horse built for towing, though.

 

Tim

 

Probably used it to fetch the shopping.

[Derek R.]

I remember being rather surprised passing a 38m peniche which was tied at Strasbourg to see a horse on board. Didn't look like horse built for towing, though.

 

Tim

 

If you'd gone to Rotterdam in the late sixties you would have seen more than horses aboard barges. My Brother-in-Law was commissioned to collect, import and quarantine many species of wild animals from Africa and Asia destined for Zoo's elsewhere. Quite a lot of beasts saw life afloat while specialist buildings were erected. Antelope and Tapir maybe not quite haulage material though.

[Max Sinclair]

Donkey Stables at Diglis Docks and overnight Donkey Meadows now built on by Acorns Hospice.

[pquinn]

i posted this a a few weeks back from America.http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=61660&hl=