JIMTY

[fittie]

Does anyone know anything or remember Jimty. I remember being sent up to the village to get him a packet of fags and a pie. I once went into the cabin - you could see day light through the boards of the cabin sides. Any pictures?

[alan_fincher]

Although there seem to be no forum references to "Jimty", both "Jimpty" and "Jinty" find some references to this chap.

 

I've got to the stage where I'm unsure if there is a correct spelling of his "name"!

 

EDIT:

 

This article refers to him as "Jinty Golby"

Edited July 12, 2015 by alan_fincher

[Derek R.]

There are a few frames in the 'Painted Boats' film (I'm sure it's that one) that show an elderly man with a dog getting off the counter of a boat laid up in the reservoir at Braunston, and I wonder if indeed that might have been 'Jimpty'.

[fittie]

The one I am thinking of lived in a cut off butty cabin floating on the off side before the bridge at bottom lock, Braunston, op side to the UCC office.

[ChimneyChain]

The only pictures I seem to recall of him and the boat are in Mike Webbs " Braunston Boats"

 

Darren

[zenataomm]

I remember seeing the cut off back end mid sixties.

I imagine it was finally scrapped?

[Laurence Hogg]

I remember seeing the cut off back end mid sixties.

I imagine it was finally scrapped?

Was still extant in around 1974, not sure after that. The name I knew was Jimty btw.

[fittie]

I think it was burned after his death - not with him still in it I assume.

[pete harrison]

This was the stern end of the Willow Wren Canal Carrying Company butty SMEW (originally G.U.C.C.Co. Ltd. NORTON) - latterly renamed JIMTY. According to my records JIMTY was broken up an burnt at Braunston in 1981, although I do not recall see it there then.

[alan_fincher]

I think it was burned after his death - not with him still in it I assume.

 

Maybe they played out the yarn that Hemel and Ronnie spin to Eric Sykes in the "Bargee"....

 

........ "Lovely blaze, he made!".

[Carl Ryan]

Here it is in the mid seventies

Carl

[fittie]

I have been told it was taken out of the water in the pound that was used for the tunnel work between locks 4 and 5. It was then craned out and lifted up as high as possible and then dropped - it is said that it was so well built that it bounced, accompanied by cheers of the onlookers.

Oh, and cheers for the picture!

[David Schweizer]

Here it is in the mid seventies

Carl

 

A photo taken from exactly the same position taken in the early 1960's appears on page 11 of Alan Faulkner's booklet about Willow Wren. i would copy and paste it but there could be copyright issues.