Grand Union Canal and "Roger" at Rickmansworth

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 21 Jan 2009

This is the canal looking from the Church Street bridge. The nearest narrowboat on the right is the historically important "Roger", restored, owned and operated by the Rickmansworth Waterways Trust. "Roger" was the last wooden motor narrowboat to trade on the canal and is the sole surviving example of a narrowboat built by Bushell Brothers of Tring, who constructed wooden boats for a period of about a hundred years from about 1850. It was mainly used to transport coal. The name on the side of "Roger" is A. Harvey-Taylor of Aylesbury with the telephone number Aylesbury 9. (From a Geograph point of view the 194000 northing grid line runs down the middle of the canal here, then off to the right through the distant narrowboats, so the left part of the photograph covers detail in Image)

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