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Appendices
- Trip Reports
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Blisworth
Tunnel Bicenteneral Celebrations, by
Mandy Knight.
Friday 17th - Sunday 19th June 2005.
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Friday
evening: arrived at boats after an exhausting
4 1/2 hours most of which was spent getting stuck
nose to tail on the M25....even worse with
the hot weather as well and having only just finished
work!! Luckily Andy Belton
was already there,so we sorted ourselves out and
put Rob's bed up under the cratch
cover on the motor.
Saturday morning, Chris woke
at 4.30am and started fishing (he had a 2 week
ban previously and could not wait to get started
again!!)
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I,
in the mean time, made the bacon sarnies when
we got up at a reasonable time, then set to sorting
the boats to show,cleaned the brass, tidied the
cabin etc....visitors were a bit thin on the ground
to start with but soon picked up.
A lady walked past and said that she had been
born on Brighton, so we chatted
to her and found out her name was Lillian
Jackson (nee Purcell) and was born on
Brighton in 1939 at the bottom
of Buckby Locks. |
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out she was not the only one that weekend to have
connection with the boats another lady said her
uncle used to work on Nuneaton,
then another lady said her father captained Nuneaton
when she was a teenager and remembered working
the locks and taking the helm, and a gentlemen
remembered the boats when they were camping boats
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Dave
Davies and Roger Hutchinson
turned up at lunchtime and gave a hand.Then Rob
took Nuneaton through the tunnel
on the pararde behind Jason's boats,
breathing in all the lovely steam and smoke churned
out by President and Adamant;
Lizzie and Dave, both suffering from hayfever,
caught the vintage bus back from Blisworth and
got back before Nuneaton....
We all had a lovely Hog roast in the evening and
great music and beer too. |
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Sunday,we
all slept much better and I had to wake the kids
at 8.30am so we could get our brekkie and get
tidied. We had a visit from from new members
Ian and Marion and later
on Fabian and Pat
came and gave a hand - thanks to them we left
the boats slightly earlier to be able to travel
home - much better journey home (Chris
and Lizzie slept all the way). I
must say we had a great weekend considering how
hot it was; lots of people took an interest in
the Trust and there were some potential members,
fingers crossed.....
UNTIL THE NEXT TIME
MANDY, ROB, CHRIS AND LIZZIE |
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Narrow Boat Trust is a company limited by guarantee,
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Narrow Boat Trust is a charity registered in England under
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