> Graeme Wall wrote:
>
[snip]
>>
>> Is there any commercial traffic on the canal system these days, MSC
>> excepted?
>>
I like their bit about developing a mumti-modal transport behicle for
road/rail/river. It's called a container surely!
Good to see they are looking at it seriously and sensibly. No doubt some
civil servant will now come along and tell us it can't be done and is just
grown men playing boats.
>
> I vaguely remember some timber being carried on the River Lee until
> fairly recently too, but that was a dying trade.
Used for making coffins?
>
>>> (Jason & his pair on the Grand Union delivering lime juice from the
>>> docks to Roses at Hemel Hempstead in the 70s & early 80s. *Never* get
>>> in his way, his boats were *heavy* & made of thick steel & they'd got
>>> no brakes.)
>>>
>>
>> I've heard of him I'm sure, something of a character IIRC.
>>
> Oh, yessss...... :-)
>
> He ran Jason's trip out of Little Venice for a while after the lime
> juice run stopped, & I'm racking my brains now trying to remember his
> surname. Murrell, that's it. He's from at least the third generation of
> a boating family. I'd not want to swear he was born on a boat, but I'm
> pretty sure his Mum was. T & D Murrell on the sides of the boats, from
> Tam & Di, his parents.
That's the bloke!
>
> It's all coming back now.....
>
Steady on, take deep breaths...
