25-03-2020, 05:32 PM
As an unashamed Grauniad reading Seven/2CV owner, I think it is time to move on, or maybe take a few steps back, or at least to a stop lock in Cheshire, where Tim Leech operated.
The workshop contents were removed I think by Mike Cockrell, the towpath being accessible for 4w trailers reversed down from the cottages above the tunnel end. The submarine lathe story may or may not be true, was it a Boxford, a Myford or a pillar drill? There is a recovery involving hire boats, unknown to the hirers, which can be discussed in private as one sincerely hopes it is apocryphal. I have been promised pictures of the removal of a Petter PD4 from the side of the dry dock, involving scaffolding and Tirfor winches unless those involved in the operation do not wish to be recognised, either by their wives or their insurance companies.
Was Arthur Howard still with us in the late 80s? Whilst Taylors Yard was built by the Shropshire Union for maintenance and building of narrow boats and indeed wide beam carrying craft was the original intention, the use of the yard for building pleasure boats had gone on for a long time. These were both privately owned boats as referred to by Bruce, and the big mahogany River Dee trip boats, Bithell Boat as I recall, was the owner Ted? Arthur was a brilliant boatbuilder, and in the busy run up to the start of the season heavy handed narrow boat stranglers were sent to help Arthur. Steaming ash timbers, delicate copper riveting, working with thin hard wood planks, he was very good at showing how it should be done, and very patient with those wanting to observe and learn. David Jones was somewhere between Arthur's boss and his patron. Bruce, which boat was yours?
As for the list of pubs in Sandbach once famous for lock-ins, someone will have to explain to the younger forum users how, barely after Queen Victoria left the throne, pubs were meant to close in the afternoon. Right, before we find out how many Sevenists ever had a pint, or two, in the Commercial in Wheelock it's time to go back to the workshop.
The workshop contents were removed I think by Mike Cockrell, the towpath being accessible for 4w trailers reversed down from the cottages above the tunnel end. The submarine lathe story may or may not be true, was it a Boxford, a Myford or a pillar drill? There is a recovery involving hire boats, unknown to the hirers, which can be discussed in private as one sincerely hopes it is apocryphal. I have been promised pictures of the removal of a Petter PD4 from the side of the dry dock, involving scaffolding and Tirfor winches unless those involved in the operation do not wish to be recognised, either by their wives or their insurance companies.
Was Arthur Howard still with us in the late 80s? Whilst Taylors Yard was built by the Shropshire Union for maintenance and building of narrow boats and indeed wide beam carrying craft was the original intention, the use of the yard for building pleasure boats had gone on for a long time. These were both privately owned boats as referred to by Bruce, and the big mahogany River Dee trip boats, Bithell Boat as I recall, was the owner Ted? Arthur was a brilliant boatbuilder, and in the busy run up to the start of the season heavy handed narrow boat stranglers were sent to help Arthur. Steaming ash timbers, delicate copper riveting, working with thin hard wood planks, he was very good at showing how it should be done, and very patient with those wanting to observe and learn. David Jones was somewhere between Arthur's boss and his patron. Bruce, which boat was yours?
As for the list of pubs in Sandbach once famous for lock-ins, someone will have to explain to the younger forum users how, barely after Queen Victoria left the throne, pubs were meant to close in the afternoon. Right, before we find out how many Sevenists ever had a pint, or two, in the Commercial in Wheelock it's time to go back to the workshop.