[modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos

Al

The Windermere Nautical Museum has steam launches which are still fully
operational.  An excellent Museum to visit if you ever make it over the
Pond.

Peter


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Allen Messer
Sent: 15 April 2008 15:11
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Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos

Since we have successfully gotten far O/T, are there
still Steam launches operating on Lake Windemere?

Al
--- Tony Wells <oaksfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Once brought a boat up from a boatyard in
> Wolverhampton to Shipley for a 
> boatyard owner, and we came the "scenic" route round
> the Birmingham Ring - 
> in some places there was so much cutting oil etc in
> the canal water from the 
> nearby factories that it looked green ... <sigh> All
> the factories are gone 
> now though, and the canals cleaned up though, so it
> is somewhere else to 
> re-visit when we start canalling again (after my
> wife retires next year!)
> 
> Tony.
> 
> PS, a late reply to Alan's comments about the Thames
> steam yatchts - on our 
> first canalling holiday, over 30 years ago now, we
> picked the boat up on the 
> lower reaches of the Grand Union Canal, went up it
> to pick up the Oxford 
> Canal, went down the Oxford to the Thames (including
> a short detour onto the 
> Isis!), then down the Thames to pick up the Grand
> Union again, and so back 
> to the boat yard. When we were on the Thames though,
> we saw a lot of the 
> little steam powered "yachts", 20 and 30 foot steam
> powered launches with a 
> small day cabin, that Alan mentioned. The waterways
> were just changing over 
> from Commerical to Leisure use, and these yachts
> were being rennovated left, 
> right and centre - a "must have" to park on your
> VERY expensive house's VERY 
> expensive river frontage! As we have been on nearly
> every canal in the 
> country, the Thames is the only place where I have
> seen them, so they must a 
> unique Thames style boat.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Beaman" <dave.beaman@xxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:16 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
> 
> 
> > Try the BCN Al, more waterways than Venice!!! The
> Black Country through
> > Dudly is worth doing and visiting the Black
> Country Museum on the way. If
> > you do come this way, give us a shout.
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> > Dave
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:03 PM
> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: disused Underground photos
> >
> >
> >> Al,
> >> There are quite a lot of steam boats over here.
> >> The Steamboat Association lists many of them,
> plus there are a lot that
> >> are
> >> not listed there.
> >>
> >> As for the canals, I once went from Brentford to
> Watford on a coal barge
> >> that was returning light to...wherever.
> >> That was in the days when almost all the traffic
> was commercial. (Around
> >> the
> >> mid-late 50's.)
> >>
> >> Although I have been on many inland waterways
> since then, I have never
> >> been
> >> on the canals.
> >> Something I plan to remedy, preferably around,
> what was, the industrial
> >> areas of the midlands / north.
> >> Alan
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