Kent | The Nurser Family and Braunston Dockyard

Kent

Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:33:52 +0100

Photo: Waterways Archive published in Narrow Boat Magazine Winter 2018

Kent is passing beneath Tuckey’s Bridge no. 43 on the Oxford canal near Cathiron Wharf towing recently acquired and docked butty Uranus in May 1955. Boatman L.Wilson is in command.

Kent and Hazel

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:38:03 +0000

Photo: Mike Webb (reproduced in ‘The Twilight Years of Narrow Boat Carrying’)

Doris Collins steers Blue Line’s Kent and Hazel out of Braunston Lock 3 in the early 1960s.

Alan Firth Plate

Wed, 16 May 2018 14:12:17 +0100

Photograph: Andy Marks

‘Between the locks’

Depicting Kent and Hazel with Jim Collins at the helm

Kent & Hazel 1958

Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:41:40 +0100

Photograph: Mrs Pat Edwards. Reproduced in Narrowboat Magazine Autumn 2006

Kent and Hazel tied up at Braunston Stop before journeying up to the collieries for another load.

Kent

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 16:02:05 +0000

Kent

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:23:53 +0100

Photograph Mike Webb

Motor Kent and butty Hazel pull away from Bottom Lock, captained by Jim Collins with coal for the 'Jam Hole' in August 1961

Kent

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:29:37 +0100

Photograph: Tom Chaplin