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Tam & Di

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A great book. One reason I asked is that the grain we carried Tilbury to Weybridge for Allied Mills was imported CWR (Canadian Western Region Hard Wheat), referred to as "queers". I've not seen anything to suggest that Tooveys used East Anglian grain moved by water, but that is not to say it wasn't.

You'd think, if East Anglian grain were available and priced competitively, that Whitworths in Wellingborough would have used it, rather than importing to Brentford (or Limehouse?) and having it brought up by narrowboat, which I believe became a regular traffic in the 30s after the modernisation of the Nene.

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No problem at all. The B I Fleet never got much publicity.

I posted many comments and photos under the heading 'Shirley Short Boat'

a good few weeks ago, with many anecdotes told to me by my Dad.

Regards.

Roy Gibbons.

Hi Roy, I have sent you a PM.

 

Cheers.

 

Gazza.

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If you go to http://www.llcs.org.uk/html/newsletters.html and download editions 10 and 11, you will find a couple of articles by Roy on Appleby's boats.

 

On grain more generally, don't forget that the word covers a wide variety of different types. Imported grain and home grown grain can often have different uses, with farmers specialising in what grows best under their own specific circumstances.

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If you go to http://www.llcs.org.uk/html/newsletters.html and download editions 10 and 11, you will find a couple of articles by Roy on Appleby's boats.

 

On grain more generally, don't forget that the word covers a wide variety of different types. Imported grain and home grown grain can often have different uses, with farmers specialising in what grows best under their own specific circumstances.

Thanks Pluto, you're a star!

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Uuuuurrrrrhhhhhh!

 

The whole thing is extremely tasteless and ugly, but I agree totally about the wheelhouse. I don't see how they have the gall (the ignorance?) to suggest that it is suitable 'to tour the waterway'. As for the 4' portholes front and back of the wheelhouse - compared to the silly little things they've used elsewhere obviously 4' ones will 'improve the visibility'. I think it would be dangerous - the visibility is so limited it would actually be illegal to cruise with that on the continent. I can't see who the people selling it actually are on their site, but if they actually believe their description of the works as being sympathetic and complementing the hull they are totally self-deluded. I suspect though that they are just throwing those words in as part of the sales pitch.

 

Poor Chaceley mad.gif

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Have a look at their "For Sale" page to see the wheelhouse they have put on Chaceley.

 

http://www.noatun.co.uk/for-sale/

 

Wouldn't fancy trying to skipper it!

 

 

This page says that the cabin and wheelhouse were made from the sections of the hull cut out when the boat was shortened, and describes the result as "a completely bespoke and unique look". Quite!

 

From this:

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to this:

 

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NarrowBoat Spring 2017 has an article by Chris Jones entitled "Grain on the Water." Study of the carriage of grain, which formed a substantial traffic on the South Midland waterways for many decades.

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Thanks Ray, we've been waiting to see this. My original post was re the book Di is writing, fundamentally about carriage of grain through the ages on the Thames to feed London, culminating in our trade from Tilbury to the river Wey. As it is a publisher which deals in food history Di has included a selection of historic bread recipes too. Traffics onto the canals is slightly peripheral but does get mention. The draft is now with the publisher but we're still looking for pictorial reference and there is time to make small additions and amendments if they come to light.

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