Meagain
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Newtown creek ?If anybody can say where this was taken there be extra kudos points....
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Newtown creek ?If anybody can say where this was taken there be extra kudos points....
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Bingo....!!Newtown creek ?
You’ve just won the YBW forum ?
Works for me ?Just put him on ignore - I have and he troubles me no more!!
Not at all. Calais was always full of British boats both sail and power.Was that quite a unique thing to do back then? Certainly a fine looking craft ?
This is probably one of my favourite photos but not sure if it'll qualify for a bottle of rum. It must have been taken in the mid to late 60s as he died in 1971 when I was 4.
My Grandpa on one of his little runabouts, you can just see the bow of another one at the bottom of the pic. The location was Hoo Mill lock on the Trent and Mersey canal where they lived and had a hire boat business.
The train track embankment in the background looks fairly new and is now over grown with trees and vegetation which may give an indication of the date.
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About 1/2 mile from where I'm sat now
Hixon, on the industrial estate, engineering, 38 years and countingReally?! Are you at Great Haywood or the other end?