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Annie Laurie
It was the year of the Coronation and we, the Allans, had a T.V. We were all sitting watching this event when Mother got up and said, "right, one of you go down and tell Annie Laurie that Bill, her son, is on the telly". I said "who ...Read more
A memory of Kilbirnie in 1952 by
Good Times
I lived at 14 oak street Chapel of Ease. I can remember the two estates being built and the bridge in the photo is also the way I went to school at the west end primary school. The red phone box is still there I believe, in the photo the high ...Read more
A memory of Abercarn by
Fishing
During the school holidays the canal and it's towpath became a playground for many of the village children. Several of us caught the fishing bug and used the canal many times throughout the holiday. We always looked out for a barge called ...Read more
A memory of Wheaton Aston in 1956 by
A Dunking
The story of the family dunking.....Once upon time there was a naughty little boy aka POP, and he and his friends decided they fancied the bibles and candles from the local church, they decided to run for it, and he and his mates decided to ...Read more
A memory of Ipswich by
My Boyhood Memories. With My Grandad
I hope that anyone left of my family can read this, as now being 72 , I lost all track of coming to Kent. My home town was Lytham St Annes where my mother lived and dad was in the RAF and met my mother there. My ...Read more
A memory of Faversham by
Monks And Sons
Hi I used to work for Monks and Sons in the 1970's, it was a very nice place to work. There was Dennis Monk and Jack Monk who used to run the business. They repaired Fords steel pallets and made 14ft dia by 400ft long steel chimney stacks ...Read more
A memory of Purfleet by
The Move From The Old Infirmary To Huddersfield Royal Infirmary 1966.
I clearly remember arriving at 'Ellerslie' a large detached Victorian house situated in the suburb of Edgerton near Huddersfield. The house had been used as a nurses' training ...Read more
A memory of Huddersfield by
By The Cut
born in 1948 in a place called Cappenfield near Bilston, just off Dudley street, just four houses in a row surrounded by fields,, the canal, or cut, as we all called it ran alongside, and it narrowed down to what we called the stop,it was where ...Read more
A memory of Tipton by
Daniel Adamson
I recall, as a young police constable, going for a trip on the MSC barge 'The Daniel Adamson'. This was from no 8 dock at Manchester, just by the Trafford swing bridge. The trip went though Mode Wheel locks, Latchford locks ...Read more
A memory of Manchester Ship Canal in 1972 by
Hopkins Street Longsight
I lived in Hopkins St for 13 years from 1953 when I was born until 1966, when we moved to North Road. I went to Stanley Grove school , the headmaster was Mr Silver. I remember neighbours The Evisons they had 2 daughters Jean ...Read more
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A Thames sailing barge is being unloaded.
Tamar barges, such as the one moored here at the quay, were once a common sight on the Tamar and the Tavy.
There were several variants of the Thames sailing barge.
The sailing barges look very much at home bottomed- out on the creek mud.
This splendid view shows part of the fishing fleet and a spritsail sailing barge beached in the shallow waters at low tide.
These ships are topsail schooners and what might be an inside or outside Tamar barge at Calstock, 17 miles up-river from the sea.
On the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, barges carried timber and coals.
On the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, barges carried timber and coals.
Then, it was a bustling port with barges moored two or three deep unloading timber and barley.
Sailing barges are tied up in the Wet Dock, the non-tidal part of the port of Ipswich.
This photograph shows two spirit-rigged Thames river barges at Messenger's Boat House, Surbiton.
Two Thames sailing barges discharge cargo at low water on the beach, whilst drawn higher up are some bathing machines.
The eight spritsail barges wait to bring their cargoes into the dock.
This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.
Before the deepening of the channel to Ipswich, ships stopped at Butterman's Bay to be unloaded into barges from Pin Mill.
Barges plied up and down the Wharfe delivering to the breweries, including John Smith's at Tadcaster, pictured here.
Steamers discharge their cargo by way of chutes into dumb barges.
In this ramshackle scene, flat-bottomed coal barges squat in the mud alongside a collier's wharf.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
The house has been demolished, and to the left is the track for the barge horses who went overland to meet the barges at the other end of the tunnel.
At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.
In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.
Note the person working on the packed barge on the right - the distinctive hat could mean that he was a seaman from Asia working from the barge, or maybe he was a lighterman.
One of the sailing barges that used to work the coast and the River Orwell is laid up at the water's edge.
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