One HULL of a home! 60-year-old English barge with four cabins and views of Tower Bridge goes on sale for £875,000 The 2,000 sq ft home in Wapping boasts four cabins and is one of few surviving Medway Coasters Built in 1961 from British steel, the vessel is described as a ‘piece of British maritime … Read more
After vanishing for 62 years and ending up as a coffee table, a mosaic that adorned the bridge of one of Emperor Caligula’s lavish pleasure barges has returned to Italy. The 2,000-year-old, 5 sq. foot red, green and white pattern was recovered from the bottom of Lake Nemi — 19 miles south of Rome — … Read more
So much for being a NARROW boat! Fire crew saves family after their canal barge gets WEDGED in lock and starts SINKING West Midlands Fire Service called to Botterham Lock in Wombourne, at 10.22am Three people left stranded on the canal boat after it got wedged in the lock Fire crews rescued all three on … Read more
The quirky boats that now rule on dry land, from a 19th Century barge in Suffolk to a former ferry in Cornwall A 19th Century Dutch barge moored on the River Deben in Suffolk sleeps four A Cornish farm is the setting for The Wild-de-go, once an Isles of Scilly ferry Wake up in the … Read more
A couple who couldn’t afford to get on the property ladder in London have transformed a 1960s cargo barge into a stunning two-storey floating home. Christina Miles, 33, and her partner Rohan Tully, 36, who have been together 13 years and have a one-year-old daughter, Elara, have been living on their boat – currently moored near … Read more
A holiday on the ‘cut’ — as regulars call the canal network — is about unhurried tranquillity: slowing down to a pace where all the time in the world is just about enough to take in your countryside surroundings. Boatees vie to let others pass through a lock before themselves; catching a glance which asks … Read more