2500 x 3750 px | 21,2 x 31,8 cm | 8,3 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
18 dicembre 2015
Ubicazione:
H and R Ainscoughs mill, The Leeds and Liverpool Canal Mill Lane Burscough Lancashire England
Altre informazioni:
The Barge “Ambush” moored outside the renovated and redeveloped H and R Ainscoughs mill at Burscough West Lancashire. Burscough is a village on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal about 23 miles from Liverpool. “Ambush” was one of a fleet of nine barges built for H and R Ainscoughs in the 1930’s to carry imported American grain from the docks at Liverpool to this corn mill and one at Parbold. The barges where last used in the 1960’s before the movement of the grain was transferred to road transport. The barges where sold off and went onto other work such as carrying coal to the power station in Wigan. It is thought that this was the first time for over 50 years that “Ambush” had been moored at the mill. The occasion was the presentation of a cheque to support the H and R Ainscoughs barge perseveration project by Persimmon who had renovated and converted the mill into apartments. The H and R Ainscoughs barge perseveration project, based in Burscough, is a charity established to record memories of the mill and its workers along with helping to preserve and restore “Ambush” and her sister dumb barge “Viktora”. These two barges are they only ones of the fleet that remain local to Burscough. Image Cw 1560 copyright Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations
