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Images of the Bridgewater dewatered at Boothstown in 1990


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A few of my photos, one showing the car as it is obviously of great interest to some! The final one shows the remains as they were being broken up, with two showing how the boats were piled on top of each other. There were several box boats, with at least one still loaded with boxes.

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10 hours ago, Pluto said:

The final one shows the remains as they were being broken up

 

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I think that might qualify under the obscene publications act Mike!

 

That's just rude and offensive, but maybe hindsight is a wonderful thing or the canals would not have been closed in favour of the train and the car in the first place.

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Fantastic photos Mike.

The car does look most like a Mk1 Astra though the 340 Volvo is very similar. A Mk1 Escort has a very distinctive radiator grill - not that.

 - well we're nothing if not diverse investigators of trivia!  . . . How about naming the pushchair manufacturer . . . .

 

Two blokes in the dinghy are fishing. Looks like they've cordoned off a catch zone with net and corks.

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The remains of wooden boats were much easier to find thirty or more years ago. These are some of the flats and narrow boats sunk at Sutton Level Lock on the Weaver in 1975, and the remains of clinker-built keels, the only ones I have found, protecting the river bank opposite Goole Docks.

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Whatever car it is, the probability is it was either stolen and dumped, or beyond economical repair - and dumped. Councils took scrap cars away for free at one time, but that didn't last, and as the basin would have been 'worked out' by the eighties, a handy repository for unwanted lumps - as is the cut in general.

 

I think Roland is correct:

 

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Can we put this to bed now please?
 

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GEtting back to the boats. 2 of the narrowboats ( both single ended) appear to have stern cabins on them yet by appearance do not look like long distance boats. The cabins are very square especially the one the (brave) worker is standing on. The narrow stern of the boat does not commend itself to a cabin  giving a very small rear deck and hatch. I wonder if these were day boats cabined at the stern for maintanance duties. Any insights?

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1 hour ago, roland elsdon said:

GEtting back to the boats. 2 of the narrowboats ( both single ended) appear to have stern cabins on them yet by appearance do not look like long distance boats. The cabins are very square especially the one the (brave) worker is standing on. The narrow stern of the boat does not commend itself to a cabin  giving a very small rear deck and hatch. I wonder if these were day boats cabined at the stern for maintanance duties. Any insights?

All the old MB&BC photos I have show box boats without cabins, so I suspect you are correct in suggesting the cabins were added when the boats were moved onto maintenance. Fire buckets would have been used on the open boats to give some warmth in winter - there was no shortage of coal!

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