On 6/28/2010 2:06 PM, Neil Arlidge wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> 4 Tub Boat. Trent and Mersey Canal. Milton Maid >>> >> I reckon it looks more like a Bridgewater Canal box boat. >> > I think you are right. > http://www.boatmuseumsociety.org.uk/images/BoxBoat337/thenewboxisalmostfinished.html > So what is the "Milton Maid" lookalike in the background?..The Sale Cruising > Club floaty pontoon thingy? Dunno if it has a pet name. > Your in the right area but I think this is a box boat on the M&BB in Bury by the paper works, which was supplied from the colliery in Radcliffe, still functioning in the early sixties and still just laid up till the early seventies. This end basin has now been demolished. What the boat in the background is I have no memory of, and I agree it looks like the milton queen, but it can't be as I'm fairly certain about the location.
I know what it might be there was a strange Ice breaker kept at Bury, is it that? Did that not go to the Boat museum? By the way the Runcorn locks picture is just below the second lock down not the top lock, where the old and new lines meet again before going there separate ways. Someone has been there before you http://www.francisfrith.com/runcorn/photos/the-locks-c1955_R67002/ -- cheers Ian Mac
