I hope that you got the reply from one of our finest Ely Cathedral guides and I hope it helped with best wishes Sallyann ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian J Goggin To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:42 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: History question
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:04:36 -0000, "Glen Peckett" <[email protected]> wrote: >It's not mentioned in my OED (compact edition courtesy of Mike Stevens). As >you say Google doesn't help in general. It does find references to "Boat >Drain Church" near Bradford, Florida and "Parks' Boat Drain" in Ireland on >South Lough Neagh... > >http://www.slnra.org/webpages/boatdrain.htm > >Looking at the linked picture it rather looks like somewhere boats were >hauled out. I missed that one somehow. I've seen those places on Lough Neagh and the name generally applied to them (at least according to Daniel J Donnelly's book *On Lough Neagh's Shores*) is "coves". So the concept of "boat drain" lives! bjg [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
