LORD MAYOR STEERS THE BEER!!
Just before Easter, the Lord Mayor of Chester, Councillor Brian Bailey, took the helm of historic horse-drawn narrowboat Saturn (as seen on television’s “Victorian Farm”) as it left the Chester Canal Basin near Telford’s Warehouse with a load of Spitting Feathers beer destined for consumption at the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port! The beer had been loaded on to the boat at Egg Bridge in Waverton, close to the brewery which is at Common Farm, just by the canal.
Saturn was just one of over 40 historic boats which were in Chester on their way to the Museum for their Easter Weekend Gathering. While they were in the Canal Basin, hundreds of people took the chance to enjoy this colourful spectacle of a bygone time and learn more about the boats and their history, as well as the unique Taylor’s Boat Yard, the only traditional boat building yard of the canal age left in Great Britain today. The 100 year old Tin Tabernacle near the canal on Whipcord Lane in Chester hosted displays by the Chester Canal Heritage Trust about the history of the Chester Canal and the importance of the Boat Yard, as well as other aspects of life and work on the canals.
