Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
This is what we want to see at the top end of Faversham Creek – a thriving busy area of water, workshops and quayside that preserves and is in keeping with the history and spirit of the place. This is where barges, smacks and smaller boats, boat building and boat maintenance belong, and where they could add to the real interest of the town.
I hope it happens.
The Faversham Creek Trust, whose plan this is deserve our support. Read more and consider joining them here.
In this nice half-hour programme, actor and singer Robson Green goes fishing in a traditional Northumberland motor coble and meets a boat builder who still makes and maintains them.
I was struck by the contrast in pronunciation with Yorkshire – in Northumberland it’s pronounced ‘co-bull’ while along the coast further south it becomes ‘cob-ull’ – and by the coast’s wonderful scenery. I must go back.
In another segment meets the well known Northumbrian piper Katherine Tickell and concertinist and piper Alistair Anderson, so there’s some music too.
My thanks to the several readers who pointed this one out!
This wonderful window showing a boat builder with his adze is one of 20 fabulous 19th century stained glass panels celebrating the trades of Glasgow recently reinstated at their original home, Maryhill Burgh Halls, Glasgow. Read all about it at the Peggy Bawn Press weblog.
We don’t get many stained glass windows here at intheboatshed.net, do we?