Hire Boats Down The Years Clockwise from top left: Inland Hire Cruisers’ Bobby at Beeston Iron Lock in the 1950s. British Waterways’ narrowboat Lupin in the 1970s. Turn round day at Shropshire Union Cruises’ Norbury Junction base in the 1960s. A Shropshire Union Cruises’ narrowboat in the 1970s with distinctive sliding roof. The 1950s Canal Cruising Co hire boat Magician was a former river launch. The interior of an early Canal Cruising Co craft. A 1980s Anglo Welsh narrowboat at Great Haywood. A classic cruiser designed by Holt Abbott of Canal Pleasurecraft. Aylesbury Cruisers’ Aylesbury Garganny at Hawkesbury Junction in the 1960s.
CANAL CRUISING CO
CANAL CRUISING CO
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