tarboat's photos with the keyword: barge

On the first floor of the Lowther Hotel in Goole was used as a boardroom by the Aire & Calder Navigation Committee when in town. The walls are decorated by wall paintings showing various views of the Goole docks. These were largely hidden behind wallpaper until revealed a few years ago. The paintings seem to date from before 1835 and it is suggested that they were created by a Mr Bromley in 1834. The Bromley family were ship owners and chandlers and there are several possible artists in the family. James Bromley, who was a packet boat proprietor in 1841 is the most likely. By 1851 had moved to London where he was the manager of a diorama in St Marylebone. This suggests involvement in art and landscapes, but the definite identity of the artist remains unproven.

FCB18 is a concrete barge built by Messrs Wates Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness in 1944. The use of concrete for building such vessels enabled a saving of around ⅔ of the amount of steel required for a conventional barge. It is now hidden away in a remote corner of the Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port as certain people consider this important barge to be an eyesore as cement is not sexy enough for their populist ideals.

A couple of barges have made the trip over the Wash from Boston to Wells-Next-The-Sea harbour. The old granary in the background has now been converted to holiday flats.

Sunset at Rossmore Quay on the Galway shore of Lough Derg. Jefferson surveys the barge that had brought us to this quiet place for the night.

Lough Neagh sand suction dredger barges Ballyronan and Toomebridge at Northstone's Sandy Bay wharf. These are two of eight identical vessels built by James W Cook Ltd of Wivenhoe, Essex, between 1968 and 1974 for Scotts of Toomebridge. They are 120’ 6" long by 19’ 3" beam and all loaded and discharged by pump. They were built at the largest size for the locks on the Lower Bann which gives access to the lake from the sea. The sand trade on Lough Neagh continues to occupy several companies and a large number of barges in dredging around 1 million tonnes of sand annually.

Attenborough sand and gravel pit was established in Nottinghamshire in the 1920s. Since then the pit has expanded up the Trent Valley in Nottinghamshire, and into Derbyshire. The current extraction operated by CEMEX UK Materials (Aggregates) Ltd is undertaken almost 5km from the processing plant and material is moved across the flooded former workings with barges pushed by Bantam tugs. The flooded pits form an extensive nature reserve which is managed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Broxtowe Borough Council. Here a load of gravel is just setting off from the loading staithe quite near to the Radcliffe power station.

Barge Panary at the North West Farmers wharf on the River Weaver just below Frodsham Bridge. This barge, owned by Viaduct Shipping, was built in 1937 and trades between Seaforth Grain Terminal and Frodsham.

Attenborough sand and gravel pit was established in Nottinghamshire in the 1920s. Since then the pit has expanded up the Trent Valley in Nottinghamshire, and into Derbyshire. The current extraction operated by CEMEX UK Materials (Aggregates) Ltd is undertaken almost 5km from the processing plant and material is moved across the flooded former workings with barges pushed by Bantam tugs. The flooded pits form an extensive nature reserve which is managed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Broxtowe Borough Council. Here a load of gravel passes the modern visitor centre at Attenborough about half way on its journey to the processing plant.

Rattcliffe on Soar power station peeps over the trees as another of the Attenborough Quarry barges is loading at the Thrumpton wharf.

It is always worth a look over the parapet at Frodsham Bridge as there is a god chance of seeing the barge Panary lying at Frodsham Wharf loaded with grain. This is the last commercial traffic on the Weaver.