Bigmere and The Danny

We went to the National Boat Museum at Ellesmere Port today, to meet up with my sister for lunch. Afterwards we had a good look round. There are some interesting boats at various stages of preservation.

Bigmere was built in 1948 by Yarwoods of Northwich, Cheshire for the Manchester Ship Canal. It is is a steel barge originally used for the carriage of cargo on the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal which she did until 1974. Having no means of propulsion, she was towed from place to place. She was originally built to carry grain from Manchester Docks to Kelloggs at Trafford Park. She was in the trade until circa 1974 and was then purchased by L Crampton and used as floating storage at Frodsham.

The Museum is next to the Manchester Ship Canal. Here we saw our first moving boat - the Daniel Adamson, aka The Danny. This is a steam driven ship, powered by coal and volunteers. See the link and the extra.


https://www.thedanny.co.uk/