Sailing barge RAVEN on River Colne below East Bridge, Colchester. She is being moved from her mooring, having been sold for £1.
Thank you to Juliet for sending this photograph to Mersea Museum.

RAVEN of Rochester Official No. 118213 was built 1904 for London & Rochester Barge Co. Motor barge 1950-1960s. Housebarge at Battersea 1970s, then Chelsea, later Maldon. Alongside East Mills, Colchester, moved downstream, became derelict not floating 1995. Broken up 2006 [Sailing Barge Compendium from SSBR].

She had been taken up to East Mill with the intension of rigging her and using her as a wine bar - or similar. Like so many of these schemes it didn't materialise. [Ron Green]
Date: May 1990