<ed.gill.spiers@gmail.com> wrote in message news:eadaaed5-57b1-42fb-b175-a2bdc1f60db0@googlegroups.com... On Tuesday, December 9, 2003 12:50:05 AM UTC, Harry Dodsworth wrote: > The navigation from Tewkesbury to Evesham was restored from about > 1950 by Douglas Barwell and the Lower Avon Navigation Trust. > The Upper Avon, from Evesham to Stratford was restored in 1974 by > the Upper Avon group. > > My parents were lock keepers at Tewkesbury from 1968 - 1972. > I have pictures of the motor barge Pisgah which was the last commercial > vessel and carried grain to the feed mill in Pershore. > > -- > Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca > ---------------------------------------------------------------- My husband Edward Spiers Grandfather George Partridge was the owner of 'Pisgah' the barge which was used to ship corn and we would be delighted to see pictures that you have of this wonderful barge. We believe after 1972 it was reconstructed into a leisure barge, but we have not details of what happened to her. Thank you, Gill Spiers A search - after removing references to Pisgah-the-place - suggests that it was owned locally in Gloucestershire in 2007 Gill. It mentions Bill Screech as the skipper. http://www.gsia.org.uk/canals/projects/s10_lpb_boats.pdf Tony Proctor
"Tony Proctor" wrote in message news:l197hc$i9n$1@reader01.news.esat.net... <ed.gill.spiers@gmail.com> wrote in message news:eadaaed5-57b1-42fb-b175-a2bdc1f60db0@googlegroups.com... On Tuesday, December 9, 2003 12:50:05 AM UTC, Harry Dodsworth wrote: > The navigation from Tewkesbury to Evesham was restored from about > 1950 by Douglas Barwell and the Lower Avon Navigation Trust. > The Upper Avon, from Evesham to Stratford was restored in 1974 by > the Upper Avon group. > > My parents were lock keepers at Tewkesbury from 1968 - 1972. > I have pictures of the motor barge Pisgah which was the last commercial > vessel and carried grain to the feed mill in Pershore. > > -- > Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca > ---------------------------------------------------------------- My husband Edward Spiers Grandfather George Partridge was the owner of 'Pisgah' the barge which was used to ship corn and we would be delighted to see pictures that you have of this wonderful barge. We believe after 1972 it was reconstructed into a leisure barge, but we have not details of what happened to her. Thank you, Gill Spiers A search - after removing references to Pisgah-the-place - suggests that it was owned locally in Gloucestershire in 2007 Gill. It mentions Bill Screech as the skipper. http://www.gsia.org.uk/canals/projects/s10_lpb_boats.pdf Tony Proctor Found this on Canalworld forum Pisgah was taken to France in the 70s and became a hotel boat. I seem to recall that this venture was the brainchild of John Liley,former editor of Motor Boat and Yachting and still an occasional contributor to waterway magazines, It may have been renamed? If anyone has contact with John I am sure he would know the answer in any case. Mike