The Trust had agreed that Alder could be based at Over Basin; there was room to work on the tug on dry land and as the basin is owned by the Trust there would be no need for a licence or mooring fees. Having finalised the paperwork for the tug, we then needed to find crane and transport operators who could move the boat. Quotes were obtained and the operators […]
History of Narrowboat Alder Alder as it exists today was built in 1965 at British Waterways’ Bradley workshops in Birmingham. It was believed that at the time two ex-working boats were used to make the tug, recent research has revealed otherwise. In the autumn of 1965, ex Fellows Morton and Clayton motorboat Alder was cut up at Bradley. The fore-end was given a new stern and made into an un-powered […]
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