1973 Location and Short Boat Name Quiz

[mark99]

Attribution of scanned image given later today.

 

I suspect one member at least will know this.

 

[Scholar Gypsy]

Is that Bulborne (lock gate workshop), on the Tring summit of the Grand Union?

 

(on a foggy day!)

[alan_fincher]

Yes, and the boat pictured is our "Sickle".

EDITED TO ADD:

 

How do you know it is 1973, please?

[RLWP]

With Kingfisher in the background?

 

Richard

[ChimneyChain]

Bulls bridge

 

No it's not

Darren

Edited November 10, 2014 by ChimneyChain

[mark99]

I don't know it's 1973, but it's what the caption says in a book (Feb 1973) I found in a charity shop. Kingfisher inspection lunch launch is behind. It does not ID the short boat.

 

Book = D.D. Gladwin - A Pictorial History of Canals.

[alan_fincher]

but it's what the caption says in a book (Feb 1973)

Ah, yes, so it does, now I look again - I had forgotten that.

 

There were only two cut down ice-breaker tugs surviving here at that time, namely "Large Northwich" Renton and "Middle Northwich" Sickle.

 

"Renton" had a back cabin, but no surviving conventonal engine room. Its engine was under the tug deck,so this couldn't be it.

 

That it is Sickle is confirmed by the non standard equally spaced guard rails on the counter. A proper Northwich counter has the guards spaced so that the top band is about twice the width of the other two. Sickle has since been restored to something more correct.

 

Here is a picture I took of her, which In also believe is from 1973. The location has been previousy disclosed, but for anybody who doesn't know, might be harder to guess than the Bulbourne one, (although clearly it will be in roughly the same geographical area!).

 

[Laurence Hogg]

With Kingfisher in the background?

 

Richard

 

Yes that was Kingfishers mooring.

[junior]

 

Here is a picture I took of her, which In also believe is from 1973. The location has been previousy disclosed, but for anybody who doesn't know, might be harder to guess than the Bulbourne one, (although clearly it will be in roughly the same geographical area!).

 

I'm tempted to say Cheddington/Pitstone, because of the railway line. I can picture the spot that i THINK it is, but can't recall exactly where that spot is.

[Timleech]

I thought from the thread title that this was going to be something interesting about Leeds & Liverpool boats

 

 

 

Tim

[magnetman]

I agree, it is a bit confusing to call a cut down narrow boat a 'Short Boat'

 

Does that make an original working narrow boat a "Long Boat"

 

That would never do

[matty40s]

I'm tempted to say Cheddington/Pitstone, because of the railway line. I can picture the spot that i THINK it is, but can't recall exactly where that spot is.

 

Just beyond Winkwell winding hole heading south heading to Hemel H.

[Timleech]

I agree, it is a bit confusing to call a cut down narrow boat a 'Short Boat'

 

Does that make an original working narrow boat a "Long Boat"

 

That would never do

 

They were, I think, known as Long Boats in some areas.

There were Leeds & Liverpool Long Boats as well, of course

 

Tim

[alan_fincher]

I'm tempted to say Cheddington/Pitstone, because of the railway line. I can picture the spot that i THINK it is, but can't recall exactly where that spot is.

 

No.

 

 

Just beyond Winkwell winding hole heading south heading to Hemel H.

 

Possibly, depending on your meaning. If you are suggesting Sickle is heading South, then no.......

I agree, it is a bit confusing to call a cut down narrow boat a 'Short Boat'

 

Does that make an original working narrow boat a "Long Boat"

 

That would never do

 

I assumed it referred to a short quiz, rather than a short boat!

[FadeToScarlet]

I agree, it is a bit confusing to call a cut down narrow boat a 'Short Boat'

 

Does that make an original working narrow boat a "Long Boat"

 

That would never do

Long boat or monkey boat down in the.west country.

[Mike Tee]

re picture of Sickle - is it just about to go under Winkwell railway bridge? The tree line on the other side of the canal could be the back road into Boxmoor.

[magnetman]

 

 

 

Possibly, depending on your meaning. If you are suggesting Sickle is heading South, then no.......

 

 

 

going north, boat will be passing under a railway bridge then arriving at Winkwell lock 61..it will have passed through Boxmoor top lock 62 going up, about 10 minutes ago assuming it hasn't just started or turned round.

[alan_fincher]

Yes correct.

 

Going North above Slaughters, not yet passed under the railway bridge.

 

We did try and take current day pictures to match, but hadn't got the originals at at our disposal, so didn't get quite the right spot....

 

 

Edited November 15, 2014 by alan_fincher

[Derek R.]

Yer 'tiz . . .

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hemel+Hempstead,+Hertfordshire/@51.7458877,-0.5073228,242m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x487640d05cd71ac1:0xf0e07f1fcfdff2b2?hl=en