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completed some trial voyages as she neared restoration. She has been fitted with disable-friendly features such as a wheelchair ramp and lift to the living area. In the future she will be used as a "wellbeing boat", offering respite days and residential trips for people with mental health issues.
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To help with the unending task of repairing and maintaining the society's wooden boat fleet, Tameside Council made available a piece of land to serve as a boatyard. Heritage Lottery funding was obtained, and the 80-foot (24 m) boatyard frontage will be completed. Future plans include the
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erection of a visitor and education centre from which visitors and school students will be able to observe the restoration work on the narrowboats.
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The society aims to preserve wooden working boats, and its fleet of six wooden boats is moored at
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for Henry Grantham who was a "Number One" (owner boatman). The boat was used to carry
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Former canal warehouse, Portland Basin, now museum and flats
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Wooden Canal Boat Society, registered charity no. 1069820
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Wooden boat convoy picking up recyclables on Ashton Canal
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Wooden narrow boats, Portland Basin, Ashton-under-Lyne
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Index

waterway society
registered charity
England
UK
Ashton-under-Lyne
Greater Manchester
Portland Basin
confluence
Ashton Canal
Peak Forest Canal
Huddersfield Narrow Canal
Dukinfield
butty
engine
Birmingham
horse-drawn boat
coal
Coventry
Grand Union Canal

Runcorn
Bridgewater Canal
narrowboat
British Waterways
"big rickies"
Grand Union Canal Carrying Company
Rickmansworth
Portland basin, viewed from the flats
Wooden narrow boats, Portland Basin, Ashton-under-Lyne
Portland Basin, Ashton Canal, Ashton-under-Lyne

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