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Braunston Lock Keeper's Log Book

Description

Volume is water damaged and some of the earlier records are difficult to read. Each entry is written in a column headed 'north' or 'south'. The dates are detailed in most cases (but if not, can be easily calculated), along with the time the boat was recorded passing through the bottom lock at Braunston. It looks as if only the name of the motor boat is recorded when the boats were working in pairs. These carrying craft were mostly operated by British Waterways, S.E. Barlow or Willow Wren. The names of the same boatmen (sometimes with variable spelling) appear throughout these records. Numbers given are the fleet numbers of boats in the British Waterways fleet. Most of the boats would have been working in pairs, but only the motor boats are identified, as is the steerer but not the boat name which can be worked out from the fleet lists compiled by Alan Faulkner and published in 'Narrowboat' magazine (Winter 2011 and Autumn 2012). Most of the non-British Waterways' craft would probably have belonged to Willow, Wren, S.E. Barlow or Samuel Barlow. Fleet lists for all of these carriers were compiled by Alan Faulkner and published in Narrowboat magazine in Autumn 2006 (Samuel Barlow), Winter 2012/2013, Spring 2013 (Willow Wren) and Autumn 2010 (S.E. Barlow). Apsley, Croxley and Nash feature: these were three of the John Dickenson paper mills in Hertfordshire which received coal from Warwickshire. C/Val refers to the Colne Valley Sewage works at Maple Lodge near Rickmansworth which also received coal. 'E' identifies those craft which were travelling empty. These are mostly boats travelling north, returning to the Warwickshire coalfields after delivering their load. Hire boats from Wyvern Shipping at Leighton Buzzard, Maid Line and British Waterways as well as privately owned vessels increased in numbers in this period: by 1965 they were in the majority. In later entries in the volume, pleasure boats are indentified with a red asterisk. In the first part of the volume, pleasure boats are those with no steerer named and no fleet number.

Date

1958-1961

Reference code

CRT/BRAUNSTON

Extent & medium

1 volume
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