- Advertisement -Montpellier Legal provide conveyancing services throughout Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, and London.
WAR specialise in the sale at auction of ceramics, glassware, jewellery, clocks & watches, collectables, textiles and rugs, silver, metal ware, paintings & fine art, furniture and outside effects.WAR specialise in the sale at auction of ceramics, glassware, jewellery, clocks & watches, collectables, textiles and rugs, silver, metal ware, paintings & fine art, furniture and outside effects.

In pictures: restored barge launched in canal at Brimscombe

MOST READ

In torrential rain this afternoon a barge restored by Cotswold Canals Trust (CCT) volunteers was launched into the canal at Brimscombe, near Stroud Brewery.

CCT barge 3 | In pictures: restored barge launched in canal at Brimscombe
Straps are attached to the barge so it can be craned from the transporter.

The barge was bought earlier this year by CCT in Ely, Cambridgeshire, arriving in Stroud in April, and has undergone a full restoration at the Old Merchants Yard (Newland Homes development site) on Cheapside.

Heavy lifting specialists transported the barge from Cheapside to Tudor Rose’s truck park in Brimscombe, where the 20-tonne vessel was craned across the fence and into the canal.

CCT barge 12 | In pictures: restored barge launched in canal at Brimscombe

The vessel was built in the 1960s and used for piling work in Cambridgeshire, at one point featuring in a TV programme with Selina Scott. The restoration was led by CCT volunteer Alan Jones and even involved a rebuild of its Lister diesel marine engine, manufactured nearby in Dursley.

Eight tonnes of new steel was cut and welded into the vessel, and two 11-tonne hydraulic cranes have been fitted, totalling around 1,800 volunteer hours of work. The vessel will initially be used for dredging the section of the canal at Brimscombe, along with piling and general cargo work.

Pictures and video by Matt Bigwood

Latest News

In pictures: Forest Green’s unbeaten run ends at Braintree

Forest Green's 19-game unbeaten run ended at Braintree.
Skip to content