Your photos remind me of a dear lady friend who was my assistant in a psych hospital years ago.
She went to university in Hull.
We also shared an interest in painting, and the Impressionists.
Anyway, she told me that her interest in art was a result of her father's career as a painter (decorator) of barges in the UK.
One memorable day we took a group of psych patients to a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.....and I spent 3 hrs trying (and failing) to explain "baseball" to her.
Stig
Barge art, now there’s a whole different world. In fact, the whole canals and bargee world is a closed book to most of us. Got to say it’s great that so many miles of Victorian canal have been restored and reopened for leisure use. Very picturesque.
Where I grew up in south Birmingham there was an area of the local (Stratford) canal called the “quarter-miler”, so called because a cut had been made through a hill to make a tunnel a quarter of a mile long. No tow path, the barges had to be “walked.” through* whilst the horses were led the long way round.
* the bargees laid on their backs on the barge roof and literally walked the tunnel taking the barge with them - that’s how low the tunnel roof is!
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