General Chat

Linda Bambery big canal centre at one time

Annie Glos We were up your way 6 yrs ago and was quite a bit on there to ..... Glos and Sharpness has seen a lot of changes to :) Hope maybe visit the area in September when camping near Upton God willing

Janey good one on the retiring thoughts .... With running costs a boat is much cheeper than a house

Yes Lock keepers did and still do a lot of good work though these days not many employed

And once again with the business and in those days less health and safety rules would often be working in the dark and in damp conditions easy to slip in .. and some Locks mighty deep

One of my fave locks at Tardebigge on the Worcs and Brum is 14 feet deep

Berona -- "One of my ancestors was a Loch keeper"

That's LocK. The lock is the part of the canal that boats go through to go from one level to another. There's space between the two walls for the boat to wait while the water level in the space -- the lock -- is raised or lowered to the same height as the next section of canal.

Without the locks, when the canals were dug, all the water would have just drained out! ;)

If you google you can probably find a picture of the locks in whatever location it was.

My 2nd g uncle Married into the canal family, but set up home in and around Ealing, but I dont know anything about her family exept that they were bargees and her father came from Tipton Staffs and her mother came from Bambury.

lynn

And answering my question ...

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/

Yikes!!

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If I sell my house, I can get that last one, and even have some left over!

Well, quite a bit left over. The Cdn dollar has skyrocketed -- 15 years ago, GBP127,000 would have been about $250,000 Cdn; under $200,000 now.

I could get a couple of the cheapos to go with. ;)

But still!

So then, what does a narrowboat cost??

I have to retire some day ... ;)

How long since you visited Glos docks? A lot of change there in the last three years, still building work going on.

There are programmes that look interesting about canals on BBC 4 this evening .

Love G;ous docks and last visited the WW Museum last while courting my wife 12 yrs ago :)

One of my ancestors was a Loch keeper. Is that the same? I'm in Oz and don't know much about these things.
It has been a long time, but when I found him, it seems that his son aged 9, drowned in the loch; also his wife and he himself - all in different years. I wonder if all were accidents.

Annex lol on the Luthers We sure are rare in some places but big in others

Love the Mon and Brec . Walked parts of it a lot as a Bridgend guy with family in the Abergavenny area

We have a boat on the Monmouthshire Brecon Canal in Wales.
You cant beat boating and the people you meet are so helpful.
I would advice anyone to try boating its wonderful :

Dreams of one day owning a narrowboat .......... Waiting for a £1 m to :)
Yes 1840s would have been part of the Industrial revolution and in some sences the boom period for the many canals round Brum ... More canals than Venice there :S

No canal people in my family as far as I know. But I love looking at the canal boats in Gloucester and along the Gloucester Sharpness canal where we sometimes walk along the tow path. The Waterways museum in Gloucester is interesting as well. Our daughter has a good friend who owns a canal boat (called JunyMoon I think), we went on for a trip near Gloucester and it was so peaceful. I think their boat is moored near Newbury at the moment.

Gee thank's David
would it have been the same for the 1840s c.... :-)

Lol Janey :):) Yes Canal pubs are a real treat ..... almost 1/3 of all pubs in England are near or on the canals

Nutty thats really interesting stories ..... Been foot first in canals round Hurlston ... Sad tales but so many would have lost their lives wither legging through tunnels or just "too full of the amber nectar" or simply too busy working to see the potential for disaster

A tenuous connection!

When my mum and I were in England in 1994, we visited a pub in Worksop that her mother's uncle had owned a century earlier -- no longer called the Gas Tavern, happily. It was on the canal, and the afternoon crowd in its dark cool interior consisted of the boys from the canal boats. I imagine that canal traffic was one of the main reasons for the pub's location there in the first place. So we had a drink on the house, and I wrote an intro to the pub's guest book, and one of the boys showed us the inside of his boat, complete with all the authentic touches.

And I wished mightily that I did not have my mum with me. ;)

Mine on one side of the family worked the Trent and as far out at Grimsby, Barnsley, Doncaster. Some of the children were born on the boats. They carried coal and other things. Have lists of some of their boats, but no photos. Also i have a sad tale of one of the sons drowning at Patrington. Also two brothers who drowned on the same day together on the Trent at a Gala day. They were both found. One of them had a huge amount of money in his pocket as he was the inn keeper at Susworth. They were listed as Master Mariners. They owned property and sloops and keels. I hope to go on one of the two keels at Brigg that sail down the Trent, now that would be great to travel the way my ancestors did. Wow.
:D

I haven't found any boat people in my tree as yet, but I love to see the narrow boats and love canal walking. Last week we walked short stints along the Grand Union, Coventry, Ashby and Oxford canals. People are always pretty friendly.

BTW David, I have more than 10 Luthers in my tree!

Cane now that is interesting
Main line Worcester and Birmingham canal was on a TV programme just the other day a walk on it with history .
Done that run several times myself ... Would suggest that they would have worked cocoa for Cadburys at Bournville, Maybe some work for Worcester Porcelain Factories , and ofcourse the industries of Birmingham .

Some good interesting info from the old book Fellows, Morton and Clayton who were main carriers for the area