tarboat's photos with the keyword: shipley

Another view from the carrying contract with Short Boats Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, and Derek Bent's Weaver. Preparing to start unloading some of the pipes, with a very young Tarboat himself adjusting the mooring lines. August 1973.

Commercial carrying on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Short Boats Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, and Derek Bent's Weaver, on a contract for Bradford Corporation moving sewage pipes from Esholt to Shipley in August 1973. I was working with Derek Bent on this job and on completion we made a fast dash back across the Pennines to Leigh. One particular memory of the job is that the Corporation's steam locomotive Elizabeth was in action on the sewage works' system whilst we were loading.

Unloading underway as one of the massive concrete pipes is lifted from Derek Bent's Short Boat Weaver somewhere near Shipley. The other boat is Wye, owned by Apollo Canal Carriers, which had already unloaded. August 1973