On 03/02/2008, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
I was doing a bit of a Google search on this last night. There are several posts on this very forum where Bruce Peckett refers to the "15 mile pound below Buckby". Any doubt about whether this is merely a description, rather than him giving it its name seems to dispelled by a post copied to canals.com (Google-archived but I can't find it on the current version of the site) where he wrote: "Our boat has always been kept on the 15 mile pound ie Stoke Bruern to Whilton". I would fully expect Bruce to be using the old boaters' name for the pound and I am sure it is the one you are looking for. Bob
