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Post by kris on Nov 21, 2019 14:21:05 GMT
A bit less junk than when I saw it before you bought it, moored at Foulridge. I think the previous owners might have taken exception at you calling it junk. As they bought a house and garage and apparently filled it with items from medlock and fairmaiden.
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Post by Jim on Nov 21, 2019 14:35:20 GMT
A bit less junk than when I saw it before you bought it, moored at Foulridge. I think the previous owners might have taken exception at you calling it junk. As they bought a house and garage and apparently filled it with items from medlock and fairmaiden. One man's junk is another's golden nuggets. My sheds are full, I'm a rich man.
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Post by bargemast on Nov 26, 2019 15:11:12 GMT
Here an old film with a story that was filmed on the L & L in 1972, the shortboat is disguised and only insiders may (or may not) recognize "WYE".
The guy steering the boat is an old friend of mine who worked for David Lowe for 2 years, and then moved on to work up North on the Humber barges, until he bought a Freycinet barge in Belgium in '99 and traded between Belgium, the Netherlands and France. he still lives in France on his barge.
Peter.
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Post by angelo1728 on Nov 27, 2019 12:52:36 GMT
Here an old film with a story that was filmed on the L & L in 1972, the shortboat is disguised and only insiders may (or may not) recognize "WYE". The guy steering the boat is an old friend of mine who worked for David Lowe for 2 years, and then moved on to work up North on the Humber barges, until he bought a Frecinet barge in Belgium in '99 and traded between Belgium, the Netherlands and France. he still lives in France on his barge. Peter.
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Post by angelo1728 on Nov 27, 2019 12:56:30 GMT
Remember this Film soon after it was made. The interesting bit is the interviews with three of the residents of the Canal Bank Houses at Ring O' Bells where I was brought up. Can you confirm if it can be downloaded. Regards Roy
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Post by bargemast on Nov 27, 2019 13:17:45 GMT
Remember this Film soon after it was made. The interesting bit is the interviews with three of the residents of the Canal Bank Houses at Ring O' Bells where I was brought up. Can you confirm if it can be downloaded. Regards Roy Hello Roy, I know very little about all these modern technologies, so I can't confirm if it can be downloaded. Maybe someone more informed can come with that info. But you can of course always store it using the link :
-https://vimeo.com/192621058- without the hyphens in front and behind. Atb, Peter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 14:28:51 GMT
Remember this Film soon after it was made. The interesting bit is the interviews with three of the residents of the Canal Bank Houses at Ring O' Bells where I was brought up. Can you confirm if it can be downloaded. Regards Roy A very interesting film, for which thank you for posting. I tried to buy one of those canal bank cottages in 1972. The asking price was 2000 pounds, but I was gazumped.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 15:18:19 GMT
Remember this Film soon after it was made. The interesting bit is the interviews with three of the residents of the Canal Bank Houses at Ring O' Bells where I was brought up. Can you confirm if it can be downloaded. Regards Roy I have successfully downloaded this bizarre film using a program called 'Any Video Converter'. www.any-video-converter.com/products-freeware/Let me know if you have problems with it.
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Post by kris on Nov 27, 2019 16:11:42 GMT
Here an old film with a story that was filmed on the L & L in 1972, the shortboat is disguised and only insiders may (or may not) recognize "WYE". The guy steering the boat is an old friend of mine who worked for David Lowe for 2 years, and then moved on to work up North on the Humber barges, until he bought a Frecinet barge in Belgium in '99 and traded between Belgium, the Netherlands and France. he still lives in France on his barge. Peter. Oh so that was wye. I did wonder which boat it was.
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Post by angelo1728 on Nov 27, 2019 20:53:35 GMT
My thanks Peter downloaded no problem. Regards Roy
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Post by angelo1728 on Jan 11, 2020 11:12:20 GMT
An extrodinary photo of a Church or Club Celebration of at least 100 people taken in East Lancashire early 1950's. The short boat was originally British Isles Transport (part of Ranks) A 40 one of seven of their fleet which carried grain from Birkenhead to the Blackburn Flour Mills from 1933 to 1950. A 40 was the last one running and ceased in November 1950. She as in this picture was then purchased by Croasdales of Blackburn to carry Coal from Burnley to Whitebirk Power Station Blackburn. They had already purchased 5 of the fleet by this time.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 11, 2020 12:36:00 GMT
Thanks for posting this great H & S publicity photo Roy This is what one can call a "Packed" boat, that has nothing to do btw with a "Packet" boat. Plenty of nicely coiled ropes at the ready on the stern, but it would be rather difficult to use them with the passengers blocking access to the bollards. But as long as everybody was happy, nobody cared (in the "good" old days). Peter.
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Post by angelo1728 on Jan 11, 2020 14:24:23 GMT
Rather less people on board A 40 this time passing through Castleford Flood Lock on the Aire & Calder Navigation en route to Historic Boat Rally at Shipley in June 1999. Looking rather cold that is me on the forward deck.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2020 18:17:46 GMT
I spotted A39 at on the Thames at 4all marine near Penton Hook yesterday. Looks like she's waiting for some steelwork having been surveyed down at Thames Drydock in Greenwich. She was moored behind other boats so not feasible to get a picture. Has A 39 come back yet ? It's a good 2 months now that she was at "4 All Marina", I really hope for her owners that's she's back in the water without to have broken their bank balance for the repairs that needed to get done on her. Peter. It's been a while since this post and quite possibly more than one ownership change but I am now moored exactly opposite A39 and the boat looks in good shape. It is still at 4allmarine on the Thames. The boat has been out and had some hull works (overplating) and the wooden cabin has been tidied up so someone is looking after it which is good. A nice feature I remember about A39 is it has the original 2LW in there. Well I assume it does it would be rude to change it. If the weather is calmer tomorrow I'll pop over in the dinghy and get some photos of the boat although it is partly hidden by another boat alongside.
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Post by Andyberg on Feb 29, 2020 11:30:26 GMT
Enjoyed lunch at Crooke Hall yesterday whilst enjoying the view of Viktoria on her moorings.👍
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