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second pic This was taken in 1958 it shows Ben the boat horse towing a, T&S Elements of Farmers Bridge, day boat loaded with slack for GEC Witton loaded at Hollybonk basin in Willenhall. They are just passing the bungalows at Willenhall Lane bridge, Bloxwich on the Wyrley and Essington. On...

Not sure when the building in the OP was built but Farmers Bridge flight was well used into the late 60's as T&S Elements had a base around the top of the flight until then. It wasnt unheard of for leaky boats to be moored on the offside part of the top lock pound to stop them sinking...

From research the Purton hulks were placed as an effort to protect the embankment of the Gloucester and Sharpness canal from erosion, the two metal boats in the still shown on Mort's video arent part of this plan. They are the Wastdale H and the Arkendale H the two boats who played a pivotal (no...

Thank you, I am very interested in anything like this. The wharf building items would go nicely in the main Cadbury page which will preface the boat listings. I used to regularly pass Knighton as we had our boat at Bilbrook and the Shroppie was our regular trip for a weekend, luckily my family...

Bourneville I the donor boat for the Bolinder engine that was replaced per the order book shown, differed greatly from the working canal boats many are familiar with these days. It had twin rudders, had a decked hold rather than sheets and wheel steering, its contemporary, Bourneville II was...

Hi everyone, I came across this conversation via a link Heartland shared to a canal forum. Im the curator of www.workingboats.com and am at present rewriting the site to make it a little more user friendly as well as improving the content and accuracy. Is there any chance I could use some of the...