Photograph: Julian Thompson. Reproduced in Narrow Boat Magazine Winter 2019
After leaving Batchworth lock 81 and passing beneath bridge 173, a pair of Wyvern Shipping Company boats head south with slack coal. The motor boat is Heather Bell. Built for C.March but bought by Wyvern in 1954. The butty is likely to be either Duchess of Athol or Duchess of York.