--- In [email protected], Captain Beeky <captain.be...@...> wrote:
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> On 22 Oct 2009, at 09:37, b...@... wrote:
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> > ... one Keith Jones, who built some steam-powered narrowboats in the
> > 1980s/1990s? One called Firefly and one called Benson, I believe.
> > Benson is listed on the steam boat association's website.
> >
> > Someone mentioned Jones to me recently and I'm just curious.
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> Firefly at least was sometime available to hire, through Blakes I think.
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> I think operated from the Leicester area. I tried to book it once, but
> Keith was taking them off hire. (Maybe it was Welford, or nearby)
>
> I had tentatively agreed to do a special hire - we would pay a nominal
> amount but deliver the boat to Staffordshire. In the end we lost touch
> and it didn't happen. So we tried to hire Blue Nun.
>
> Don't start me off !
>
> Beeky
I remember Keith operating Firefly out of the end of the Welford Arm on the GU
Leicester section where he had a base
The steam plant was gas fired and in the back end cabin of the boat
If someone has back copies of Waterways World, I think there was a review
completed at the time
John
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