1. Ipswich Docks, date 1950s or 1960s - left is sailing barge ORINOCO.
The picture got Ron Green thinking:
Fortunately the two barges in the picture ... Date: c1960 Image ID AJ01_301 |
2. Barges alongside Mistley Quay, XYLONITE and RELIANCE both owned by FW Horlock. XYLONITE one of last spritsail barge launched and was built at Mistley 1926 From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS Image ID BF03_001_033_001 |
3. Flooding Mistley Quay Image ID BF03_001_034_001 |
4. Ketch barge WESSEX. Boomie Image ID BF03_001_043_001 |
5. ALEXANDRA, one of the few Poole-built barges, at Newport, Isle of Wight. (G.Archdale / Richard Hugh Perks Collection).
Used in The Big Barges, P95. Page ... Image ID BF03_001_043_002 |
6. West Quay and lift bridge, Great Yarmouth.
Ketch barge STAR of Colchester when she was Yarmouth owned.
STAR built Aldous, Brightlingsea, 1868. Official ... Image ID BF03_001_044_001 |
7. HADLEIGH CASTLE 1912 loading threshing tackle Barling Quay to deliver on Potton Island. James Walton on deck (left hand). From H Smith, High Street, Great ... Date: 1912 Image ID BF03_001_045_001 |
8. Twickenham Thames. On left is ketch barge NELLIE MAUD, Rochester, 84376. Built 1881 (?). Owner Chas. Tilhurst, Faversham Image ID BF03_001_046_001 |
9. Horlocks DOROTHY ? or MARJORIE at Woodbridge. Image ID BF03_001_048_001 |
10. Ketch barge KATE & EMILY at Pin Mill. Official Number 415.
The Big Barges describes the KATE and EMILY as "A clumsy barge with square stern and round ... Image ID BF03_001_049_001 |
11. Kirby - the quay. Sailing barge FRED. She belonged to Smeed Dean & Co, of Kent and had probably brought bricks. Image ID BF03_001_064_003 |
12. A typical staysail barge with a load of softwood planks from ships at the Surrey Dock in London, bound coastwise in the Thames Estuary in the 1940s. Photo from ... Date: c1945 Image ID BF03_001_118_003 |
13. From an old lantern slide --- Bound up past Southend. Image ID BF03_001_119_001 |
14. The last commercial square rigger to discharge at Ipswich with the spritsail barges MAY and KIMBERLEY. Photo Arthur Bennett.
The square rigged ship is the ... From: LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS Date: July 1939 Image ID BF03_001_121_001 |
15. Colchester Hythe. The barges are left to right ESTHER, VERA and LANDRAIL (Marriages). The steamer is GEM. Date: c1906 Image ID BF03_002_001_002 |
16. The Hythe, Colchester, Essex. Barges loading straw for Ridham in Kent.
Used in Down Tops'l page 128. From: Colchester River. Date: 1946 Image ID BF03_002_003_001 |
17. Revival of straw trade. Stackies being towed down Colchester River in 'convoy', bound for Ridham and the Kent paper mills. The left hand barge is BRITISH EMPIRE ... Date: c1948 Image ID BF03_002_003_002 |
18. LOTHAIR at Rye.
Official No. 67249, registered Rye, built Ipswich 1872 [MNL 1916] From: Lynn and Boston Image ID BF03_003_004_001 |
19. Schooner barge FRIENDSHIP of 1890. Another copy of the photograph has the caption "Ketch barge under tow leaving Dover ( Roger Finch )"
From MNL 1891: ... Date: after 1890 Image ID BF03_003_007_002 |
20. Sailing barge ONWARD From: Lynn and Boston --- LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS ETC Image ID BF03_003_007_003 |
21. Faversham sailing barge, Goldfinch's GARIBALDI, built 1861, when she had been converted to a sprittie. From a painting by James Webb at Chelsea in the 1880s. ... Image ID BF03_003_007_004 |
22. Weymouth --- steamer ALGETHI registered Shoreham and sailing coaster OLYMPIA. This picture is in The Big Barges, P87
ALGETHI was 548 tons, built 1902 ... From: Lynn and Boston Image ID BF03_003_007_005 |
23. The harbour, West Bay, Bridport From: Lynn and Boston --- LOCAL PHOTOS, POSTCARDS ETC Image ID BF03_003_007_007 |
24. Unidentifed. Cryptic writing on negative sleeve. From: Lynn and Boston Image ID BF03_003_007_008 |
25. On the Seine near Rouen about 1900. Boomie (perhaps DAVENPORT) lying alongside sprittie LORD WARDEN (R. H. Perks collection).
Used in The Big Barges P111 Image ID BF03_003_007_009 |
26. Ketch barge GOLDFINCH at Falmouth lying to two anchors in a gale with leeboards lowered. She has double topsails with gaff topsail stowed in the rigging. Later ... From: Lynn and Boston Image ID BF03_003_007_010 |
27. High water in the Colne. A fleet of barges gets under way with the first of the ebb, bound for the Thames and Medway. This photograph was one of Douglas Went's ... Image ID BF21_001_004_001 |
28. Barges mustering in the Colne - morning. From: Barges Image ID BF21_001_006_001 |
29. Barges in the Colne From: Barges Image ID BF21_001_007_001 |
30. Barges --- negative
Used in Saltwater Village Page 47. From: Barges Image ID BF21_001_008_001 |