[Default] On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:05:51 -0000, "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::
>On Monday, January 22, 2007 11:00 AM [GMT+1=CET], >FHS CanalClub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now the Great Ouse is getting nearer to Norfolk - where "staithe" is >> in common usuage for a place for loading and unloading boats >> (Wherries of keels) on the Broads. > >"Staithe" also occures elsewhere - I've come across it in the Leeds & >Liverpool Canal among others. Wigan Pier, for example, (apart from its >passenger-boat function) was also a loading staithe. > I think it also applies to the coal drops in the northeast, too! Brian L Dominic Web Sites: Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk (Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)
