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The Flood
Our barge, Hambrook, was moored at Hoo in the early 1950s. There were quite a number of fully rigged barges there at the time, but ours had had the rigging removed and converted into a houseboat. Most of the barges were used as residences, and ...Read more
A memory of Hoo by
The Best Time Of My Childhood
From 1954 until 1958 The Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Woolverston was where our Thames Sailing Barge was moored, and I spent my holidays from boarding school sailing, swimming, climbing trees or running free in the ...Read more
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Leigh Boys Grammar School
I attended Leigh Boys Grammar from Sept 1944 to 1950/51. I cycled from Culcheth to Butts Bridge then along the Canal towpath to School. There were still a few horse drawn barges then. Friends at School were Bill ...Read more
A memory of Leigh in 1944 by
Leaving School
So! Back to 11 Woburn Place, back to school on Hope Chapel Hill back to Hotwells golden mile with its 15 pubs. The War was still going on but there was only limited bombing and some daylight raids, the city was in a dreadful state ...Read more
A memory of Bristol in 1945 by
Floods On High St/ Bridge St Corner
Until the current concrete flood walls and steel piles that line the banks of the Fossdyke Canal were installed in the mid-1960s, this area of the village regularly flooded during the autumn and winter months. Lots ...Read more
A memory of Saxilby in 1965
Childhood Memories
I was born in Calverley in 1948. I lived with my mother, father and brother (Ernest). I attended Calverley Church School. I played down in the woods most of the time, with my brother and our friends. My brother was a bully with ...Read more
A memory of Calverley in 1956 by
Brambletye Preparatory School
Memories of Brambletye Boys Preparatory School 1967 – 1971. When I went to Brambletye at the age of nine, in September 1967, it was my fifth school in the last four years. As my parents were routinely being ...Read more
A memory of Brambletye House in 1967
Manston Usaf Base
I used to live in and around London Road, Ramsgate. One of my playmates had a crewcut and was from Texas as his father piloted Shooting Star jet fighters at nearby RAF Manston. We used to make canoes and catamarans from the ...Read more
A memory of Ramsgate in 1954
Loving Greenhithe
I was born in charles street greenhithe there were 3 families in a 2 bed house it was my nans house mary foord my other nan lived at the back of the post office in greenhithe village my father and uncle used to sing in the railway ...Read more
A memory of Greenhithe
Early Years In New Haw
Like Andrew, I was also living in New Haw around the same time. We came to 144 Woodham Lane, about 1964 and I attended New Haw County Primary school from my 4th to 10 th year. My Dad was from Ireland, Mortimer, he had a business ...Read more
A memory of New Haw
Captions
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This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as
This mill at Commercial End with its attached buildings started to decay in the 1930s, and by 1955 the last barge was sunk in the old fishpond.
As can be seen from the narrow water here, navigation is not what it was, although barges traded up to the cement works here right to the 1950s.
Until the railways came, coal from the Forest of Dean also arrived on board barges.
The Haling Path, from which this picture is taken, is the path along the river used by horses pulling barges.
The water seethes with punts, and one of the college barges is in the distance.
For its first 2 miles, it was a barge canal - as seen here.
A plywood mill imported timber from Africa, which came to the canal from Avonmouth docks by barge, as we can see here.
The towpath on the right bank was used by the horses which once pulled the barges.
Here we see barges clamouring at the lock gates.
The town's nautical connections are clearly seen is this early 20th-century view of the creek, crowded with sailing barges and boats.
A century ago, sailing barges from Plymouth once navigated almost to the bottom of the lane.
From here, the grain barges would travel to London and return with cargoes of coal, helping to make Ware prosperous from the 18th century onwards.
Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.
Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar
The barge in the photograph, its sail furled, is loaded with straw.
Now defunct, it originally carried barge-towing horses to the opposite towpath; later it became more of a leisure ferry to Cliveden House on the plateau above.
It was also known as 'the Barge River' for a time.
Church Street leads from the Market Square down to the Lancaster Canal, where a basin facilitated the handling of cargo on and off the barges.
Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.
The shallow-draught Thames sailing barge aground on the sands dominates this photograph, taken from the foot of the Elizabethan stone jetty.
From here anything up to a 1000 tons a day was taken by barge to mills along the reaches of the upper Severn.
One of the sailing barges that used to work the coast and the River Orwell is laid up at the water's edge.
This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood.
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