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Post by twerpv3 on Oct 29, 2022 18:17:50 GMT
The infamous "u boat' pictured here at Thwaites Mill. When was that took?
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Post by GUMPY on Oct 29, 2022 18:22:30 GMT
Yes agreed, my NB always handled (and looked) better with the water tank topped up but isn't that overdoing things a tad? Obviously works for them and it is their living.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2022 18:49:08 GMT
The infamous "u boat' pictured here at Thwaites Mill. When was that took? 12.50 25th August 2011
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Post by andyberg on Dec 4, 2022 10:29:40 GMT
Irwell & a38 moored at Castlefield yesterday.
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Post by jim on Dec 4, 2022 16:54:05 GMT
Mersey and Wye are up for sale, on a hard standing in a field in Cheshire. www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/boat/1932-canal-boat-yarwoods-8605824/ Out of divilment I emailed to ask whether the "owner" had a bill of sale as proof of ownership, got a reply from Tony's best mate Brian at CBS, referred me to CRT, he's just the "broker". His first response was to play dumb, telling me I would get a BoS if I bought it as proof that I owned it.
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Post by andyberg on Dec 12, 2022 11:55:36 GMT
Couple of new ‘old’ pics on the local history site today.👍 Mayors lock cottage at Tarleton Douglas locks, the start of the Ribble Link. Loaded boats just past Douglas Boatyard heading back to Tarleton on River Douglas, Southport-Preston train line in foreground was demolished in the 1960’s. I remember as a child, playing about on those boats as they were laid up adjacent to the towpath at the entrance to Mayors yard, to rot into the canal in the late 70’s / early 80’s🙂
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Post by andyberg on Jan 2, 2023 20:07:48 GMT
Great NY image sent out on the Burscough FB page…👍 Picture taken just after the Rufford branch junction, Ainscough mill in distance.
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Post by andyberg on Jan 5, 2023 14:42:25 GMT
50 years later, same snap!👍
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Post by JohnV on Jan 6, 2023 6:58:27 GMT
The trees haven't half grown, someone seems to have half inched the pill box.
(Can't leave anything lying about in that area)
but bloody hell ..... the mill chimney has survived ...... Fred Dibnah mustn't have been round that area !!!
Great photo Andy !!! fascinating to see comparisons like that
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Post by dogless on Jan 6, 2023 18:31:00 GMT
Talon enhances the photo too ... love the bow and tug front on that boat 👍
Rog
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Post by andyberg on Apr 20, 2023 7:30:41 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Apr 21, 2023 9:40:16 GMT
Interesting boat heading down the Rufford Branch yesterday, that’ll be a struggle for the single hander attempting it! somehow my comment ended up in the quote .... whoops !!! Sometimes you look at things and wonder what the hell was going through their mind at the time
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Post by pattyann57 on Apr 21, 2023 9:44:17 GMT
I've seen another similar shape but with more windows.. being done up to be a house boat, it has a lovely interior
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