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  1. Looks like Brian Collings in the hold of "Sculptor".
  2. If it is Glascote, I spent some time moored in the disused dry dock then alongside the end wall. What is in this picture, houses and a wooden fence was a factory, (I think Reliant) and I used to park our car there. On the day the wall was to be demolished I got off the boat, took the car keys out of my pocket, dropped them onto my foot and kicked them into the canal! After borrowing my wife's car keys and moving the car to a safer parking space I found the Seasearcher magnet from the engine hole and searched for the keys. Among a million or so welding rod stubs I managed to find them. Must have been late 80s but would have to find the logbook to be certain. The dry dock would have been behind the bush in the right hand corner.
  3. Nebulae was motorised but is currently a working butty again.
  4. I can confirm the boat as being Linda/Victoria, just before it moved back to moor on the Bar when the ATV car park was being developed.
  5. I have been through all 39 pages again and cannot actually find the stop gate originally shown as Mancrop at all, so have no idea where you have put it. In doing my search I have had a rethink about100036E as I think it might be connected with 100053E and 100054E back in England, 1000657 which are on the Rhine near Boppard. 100056E is the Rhine Gorge Traffic Indicator at St Goar. 100063E is the Furth Aqueduct on the Main near Nurnberg. 100065E is the Manpowered Crane at Trier on the Mosel. We think 100067E is the Rhine at Koblenz and 100070E is the other end of the Rhine Gorge control building at Oberwesel. (Umlauts sadly missing in several places!) Back in England, 100657E is Hulme Lock on the Bridgewater and I think 1000658E might be its replacement down to the Ship Canal.
  6. I think this one, (100045E) is on the Main-Donau Canal. Pages 25 - 28 were mainly taken during May 2010 in The Netherlands. Not certain of all the locations as Ian often went off on his own or on a different trip to myself, but, starting at 100764 were taken in The Netherlands. 1000770E was taken by the entrance hall of the Rotterdam Foot Tunnel under the Maas. Splashtours are a Rotterdam feature. 1000771E to 1000773 show the SS Rotterdam, formerly the Holland America ship based in Rotterdam and now moored up permanently as a Hotel and attraction. 1000774 shows the Erasmusbrug, better known as the Swan, across the Maas in Rotterdam. 1000776 shows the Eefde sluis on the Twente Canal, Netherlands, near Enschede. as do 10077E and 10078E. 100783 - 1000787 show the Zutphen Railway bridge which has a lifting section need by hotel ships for clearance, but not by most barges. Switzerland 11 is shown waiting to go through the lifted section. Will have to pause here and look through another page.
  7. As I was with Ian and Joan on some of these trips, I know some of them. 100058E is the junction of the Rhine and Mosel at Koblenz, Taken from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress opposite. I think 100036E is the Mosel but not certain. 100039E, 40E, 45E and 46E are all on the Main-Donau Canal and the water saving locks. 46E may be Nurnberg Sluis. (I am probably in the picture!) 100049E looks like Rhine, but I cannot remember which castle that is. 100060E is the Linz-Remagen Ferry on the Rhine. 100052E is Germany. 100050E is probably the Rhine 100043E and 44E are near Cologne and the pic labelled Mancrop is a stop/flood gate on a German Canal but I am not sure where this particular one is.
  8. But more or less on the line of a previous waterway. The right hand side building was originally alongside the Whitmore Arm and still in use until the big freeze of 63, when the Museum ceased using coal for the boilers.
  9. You will need a larger map if you include the European trips on the Kingdom Tours boats. Not sure if I did all of the ones Ian and Joan were on, but I remember they missed the Stuttgart year because they were on an 'eclipse' tour in Cornwall. We got a better view of the eclipse in Germany than they did, because of the cloud. Ian complained a bit when we discussed this on the next trip.
  10. As Pluto knows, Mine was the one with a hole in the roof of the engine hole! These must have been very early 70s, especially the one at Suttons as Linda/Victoria was engineless by the summer of 71, and unable to move under power. Anson started the work on conversion to Trip Boat in early 72 and I think much of the work was done at Horninglow.
  11. Bognor was one of the Trainees motors, captained by New Zealander Cicely Ramsay, paired with Dodona.. Was around in Gas Street in the early 70s, with a JP2 and a doubtful gearbox. Believe it went to Bristol when sold and was converted. Bow thruster and fancy engine fitted. Saw it once in Bristol but didn't know the owners. The Missis made a full length crochet curtain for the bedhole in the cabin but expect that is long gone. It was a nice boat, apart from the gearbox!
  12. A Fowler Ploughing Engine was often parked on the canal bridge outside the Museum for the Annual Rally. This picture was clearly taken on a non rally appearance, possibly on its way to another rally as Busy Bee did attend several rallies up until the mid 90s. I recognise the TA (Technical Assistant) standing by the rear wheel as Andy but cannot see enough of the rest of the crew to be able to date the image. The Rally ceased to be held in the mid 90s and the Museum closed to the public in 97. I think I arranged the last outing that BB had but can't remember the date now. It was driven from the Museum to Margaret Street for the opening of the People's Choice Exhibition in the Gas Hall.
  13. No John, That was filmed in 1973/4 ish when we were at Norton Canes having the engine replaced. The one in the Rum Runner was a Gangster type film which I never saw. We nearly got thrown out of the cinema in Staines when we watched 'Take Me High' because of the number of impossible direction changes made! Would have liked to have been there to watch that being made. Don't think there were many canal scenes in the Rum Runner one but as they all took place at night I really don't know.
  14. I'm guessing about 1969/70. Boat on the end is FMC Cyprus/ess and the River class next to it is the Tow, now a hopper and subject of several posts on here recently. This is the Mark One swing bridge which perished long before 1971 when we had to use a builders plank. The bridge was replaced several times and usually ended up needing rescuing from the cut at least once a week when someone tried opening it with a boat rather than sending someone off the boat to swing it before they hit it. It was slightly unbalanced and needed care to operate it safely. It was also a b***** if they didn't close it behind them as it could only be operated from the island. A boat hook was often to be found on the towpath side to aid that problem. The Rum Runner had a fire door/emergency exit opening on to a short stretch of towpath that was usually open during the evenings so the temperature inside the club could be reduced, but also allowing the racket to escape as well. I can't recall the name of the film that was made there now. Must have been 72 or 73 I think and it was filmed at night. The illuminations for filming made it like mid summer so it never got dark.
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