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Andante |
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Picture has been sent to Esk - Dredging. Sorry no details known. |
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Battlestone |
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Arriving in Hull |
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Battlestone |
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At Besthorpe on the river Trent.
Photo courtesy John Noble. |
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Battlestone |
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Heading towards Castleford flood lock. |
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Bustadthorpe |
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The former dry cargo barge seen here in Hull in its days as a tanker barge. The vessel is now a live a board house boat on the Thames. |
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A busy day. |
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Barges at Besthorpe loading point on the river Trent.
Photo courtesy of John Noble. |
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Cordale |
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Passing through Goole barge dock. |
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Cordale |
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Passing Tim Grain Goole. |
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Easedale H. |
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Heading back to Besthorpe for another cargoe of gravel.
Photo courtesy of John Noble |
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Easedale H |
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Acaster's gravel barge at Stubbs Lane bridge on the Aire and Calder navigation. |
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Easedale H. |
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with a mixed cargoe of sand and gravel from the Besthorpe Quarry on the river Trent. |
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Easedale H. |
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Passing under the old A1 trunk road bridge at Ferrybridge. |
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Farndale H |
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Seen passing her birth place at Knottingley in 2008. |
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Farndale H |
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En route back to Goole having delivered another load of gravel to Whitwood. Castleford. |
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Floss |
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On the slipway in Hirst's boatyard Knottingley 2008. |
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Friends |
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Photographed at York. |
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Fusedale H |
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Returning light to Goole, photographed at Ferrybridge. |
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Fusedale H |
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Former tanker barge converted for carrying on the gravel run from Besthorpe on the Trent to Castleford. West Yorkshire. |
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Fusedale H |
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Passing Eggborough enroute for Goole. |
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Fusedale |
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Humber Barges dry cargo barge Fusedale passing the Gunness Bridge on the Trent en route for Besthorpe Quarry. |
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Fusedale H |
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Loaded and ready for the trip to Whitwood, Castleford.
Photo courtesy John Noble |
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Setting off |
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Fusedale H sets off from Besthorpe with another load of gravel for Whitwood. Castleford with Battlestone just arriving to load.
Photo courtesy John Noble |
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Fusedale H |
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Leaving Besthorpe enroute to Castleford with a load of gravel.
Photo courtesy John Noble |
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George Dyson & Vivos |
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Loaded with Flourspa at Goole about to depart for Rotherham. |
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George Dyson |
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Steve Waddington's barges loaded with Flourspa at Goole. |
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Georgia D. |
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Former Humber barge "George Odey" berthed at Manchester dry dock 2007 |
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Georgia D |
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Former Humber barge being converted to a house boat. |
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Hargreaves Push Tug 108 |
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Seen loading gravel on the river Trent.
Photograph courtesy of John Noble |
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Hargreaves Pusher 108 |
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A closer view of the pusher tug No 108 at Besthorpe.
Photograph courtesy of John Noble.
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Hargreaves |
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One of Hargreaves push tugs and lash pans passing Spotborough Lock en routs to Doncaster with stone. |
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Hargreaves |
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Pusher tug and load entering Spotborough Lock June 2008 |
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Hargreaves |
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Close up of pusher tug at Spotborough June 2008 |
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Hargreaves |
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Pusher tug and stone load leving Spotborough Lock. |
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Hargreaves |
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Tug and load leving Spotborough June 2008. |
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Hargreaves |
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Heading down the Don Valley enroute to Doncaster June 2008. |
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Hargreaves |
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Passing through the leafy Don Valley en route for Spotborough. |
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Hargreaves |
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Returning to Caedby for another load of Caedby Stone June 2008. |
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Hargeaves |
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Loading the barges at Caedby Quarry. |
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Heather Rose |
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Turning at Besthorpe quarry.
Photo courtesy John Noble. |
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Heather Rose |
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Unloading at Whitwood 2007 |
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Heather Rose |
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En route for Castleford with a load of gravel.The Big K coal mine in the background. |
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Heather Rose |
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Departing Whitwood, Castleford |
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Heather Rose |
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About to enter Bulholme lock Castleford. |
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Humber Enterprise |
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Former tanker barge now being converted to dry cargoe vessel. |
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Humber Pride |
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At Hull on the 6th October 2007 |
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Humber Princess |
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Passing Eggborough en route to Goole |
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Humber Princess |
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Near Whitley Locks on the Aire and Calder navigation. |
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Humber Star |
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Working at Southampton in 2008.
Photograph courtesy of Phil Kempsey
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Humber Trader |
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In Ocean Lock Goole |
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Humber Trader |
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In Ocean Lock Goole. |
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Unidentified Lighter 1 |
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Rotting away near Naburn Locks York in the 1960's, does any of the former Ouse barge men know her identity? |
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Lonsdale |
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Berthed at Acasters wharf on the Aire & Calder navigation. |
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Marchdale W. |
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Berthed at Hessle Haven out of use.
Now sold on for possible converstion to house boat? |
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Michael |
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The barge Michael converted live aboard. |
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Misterton |
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Former barge now converted to live aboard. Photographed at Keadby. |
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Joyce Hawksley |
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about to enter the barge dock Goole |
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Joyce Hawksley |
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Leaving Goole barge dock. |
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Maureen Anne W |
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Converted to house boat, about to depart for Hartlepool. |
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Maureen Anne W |
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Converted to house boat awaiting depature on the evening tide for Hartlepool Marina. |
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Phyllis |
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An excellent and stylish convertion to live a board |
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Risby |
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Leaving Besthorpe.
Photograph courtesy John Noble |
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Rix Eagle |
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Passing light through Goole barge dock en route back to Immingham |
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Rix Falcon |
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Unloading at Total Oil Castleford. |
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Rix Osprey |
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Passing through Goole en route for Leeds. |
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Rix Osprey |
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Passing Tim Grain terminal Goole en route for Leeds. |
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Rix Phoenix |
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Setting off from Pollington Lock for Fleet near Leeds
6.a.m. in the morning. |
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Rix phoenix |
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Leaving Pollington en route for Fleet. |
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Rix Phoenix |
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Heading towards the Heck road bridge. |
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Rix Phoenix |
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Leaving Whitley lock. The M62 motorway pass's overhead. |
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Rix Phoenix |
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At the Fleet Oil depot Leeds. |
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Rix Phoenix |
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Outward bound passing Whitgift. |
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R35 |
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The former Gillot & Scott Lighter R35, which seems to have found a new life as a floating dry dock? |
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Besthorpe Loading |
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Loading sand and gravel at Besthorpe
Picture courtesy of John Noble |
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Seagull |
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Heading towards Whitwood. Photographed at Castleford. |
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Seagull |
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Leaving Castleford flood lock and back on the river system heading for Whitwood. |
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Selby Phillipa |
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Selby Phillipa awaiting a buyer in Goole March 2008. |
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Selby Ellen |
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Moored at Goole for possible conversion to house boat. |
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Shara Birch |
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The former Hodgson's Tannery Beverly barge, berthed at the Knottingley Shipyard 2008 |
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Sarah Birch |
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The former Hodgson's Tannery. Beverly barge now out of use at Knottingley West Yorkshire. |
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Sobriety |
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Former Humber barge now in the care of the Waterways Museum Goole. |
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Southcliffe |
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Former humber keel built in 1924. Now having its mast and sails added putting it back to as near its original condition as it is possible. |
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Southcliffe |
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Another view of this fine converted former Humber keel. |
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Southcliffe |
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Built 1924 by Dunstons of Thorne. Now converted to house boat and being restored to as near its original Keel style with mast and sails |
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Syntan |
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Travelling up the Sheffield and South Yorkshire navigation at Thorne. |
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Vulcan |
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Converted to live aboard. Leving Keadby for her Stainforth berth |
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Under converstion |
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Seen in the Fosss Basin York, this lighter is under converstion to a live a board |
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Convertion |
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Seen in the Foss Basin York in May 2008. |
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Sunken Barge |
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The name of this barge is unknown, it is laid in the Humber silts at Hessle Haven 2008.
Photograph courtesy of Pat Crang. |
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