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Barges and wherries and other working boats originally for carrying cargoes
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Norfolk’s local ITV station has an interesting scrap of film shot at Horning regatta in 1908. One striking point is that the scene is very different from the one we know today – not least because it’s so devoid of trees.
Dig the steam-powered pleasure boat, elegant racers and smart standing-lug rigged sailing boats, not to mention cruising boats very like the types still sailed in the area today.
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Victorian postcard taken at Tolverne on the Carrick Roads
The NMMC is offering an opportunity to travel back in time at the end of this month, when local historian Ralph Bird presents a talk at the museum that will take his audience down the River Fal.
Timed to coincide with this year’s Fal River Festival, the talk will start at 6.30pm on Wednesday 28 May, and will look back at how the Fal has changed over the past 100 years, during which it has gone from being predominantly a river of business to the river of pleasure we know today.
Starting in Truro and ending in Falmouth, Bird will reveal places of interest and highlight the different uses to which this once-bustling waterway has been put. He will also discuss some of the many ships that have been laid up in the furthest reaches of the river – there have been as many as 70 war and cargo ships laid up in the Fal’s creeks.
For more information go to the NMMC website.
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Intheboatshed.net as it approaches its 200,000th hit
200,000 seems like a big number for a weblog devoted a such a niche subject. It’s great that we’re reaching lots of people!
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