Could be the long pound on the London Regents Canal from Camden to
Balls Bridge. This is just over 15 Miles and is on the route from the
London Docks which would be a logical transshipment point for spelter
being brought in from abroad.
Paul
Bruce Napier wrote:
> We were listening to our copy of the Narrow Boats LP on the iPod last
> night. We bought this record in the 70s, and it was particularly
> entertaining to realise how many more of the places referred to were
> now known to us.
>
> One thing though: in the song "I'm a hardworking boater" comes the
> lines "Meself and the missus has nearly been drowned/Working by night
> in the 15 mile pound". He's got "a big load of spelter for Birmigum
> bound" so presumably he's on the GU, but we can't think where there's a
> 15 mile pound on that run.
>
> Can anyone relieve my ignorance?
>
> TIA
> ––
> All the best
>
> Bruce
>
> "Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
> moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
>
>
>
>
>
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