On Monday, January 22, 2007 11:00 AM [GMT+1=CET], FHS CanalClub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now the Great Ouse is getting nearer to Norfolk - where "staithe" is > in common usuage for a place for loading and unloading boats > (Wherries of keels) on the Broads. "Staithe" also occures elsewhere - I've come across it in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal among others. Wigan Pier, for example, (apart from its passenger-boat function) was also a loading staithe. > Also - but lesser known is "hithe" or "Hythe". Mainly used as place > names - but certainly much of my childhood was spent down looking at > the ships at the Hythe in Colchester Essex on the River Colne. And I know Maldon Hythe (also in Essex) very well, having done a lot of my Thames Sailing Barge trips from there. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
