John Cooper

My late uncle worked on a tug called FALCONBROOK on the River Lea Navigation starting in 1949 for over 40 years. Purely for family interest, I have been trying to find the present whereabouts or the ultimate fate of the tug. My enquiries with the Canal & River Boat Trust, Waterways NE London and the Enviroment Agency have had no joy. From various websites I see that Falconbrook was photographed moored in Limehouse Cut near Bow Locks as recently as 2008. Since then it has vanished into thin air and no one can even trace a record that it ever existed Can anyone help, does someone have a memory of the Lea from those times, or any theory at all about where the tug may have ended up ? I attach photos of Falconbrook in its heyday and those taken in 2007/8 P.S. Not to be confused with a more recent tug given the same name built in 1956