Museum of the Broads - steamboat 'Falcon'
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Museum of the Broads - steamboat 'Falcon'
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 9 Sep 2018
Moored at the museum's staithe, adjacent to the wherry yacht 'Norada' > https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5900955. 'Falcon' was built in 1895 in Dartmouth for Sir Edmund Lacon of Lacon's Brewery. Derelict, the boat was found by Rupert Latham in 1974, and restored in 1975/6 and it first steamed again in 1977, with an engine originally built for the steam yacht 'Cecile'. By 1982, John Watson and W Le Neve-Bower had acquired the boat and later presented it to the museum where it has since been used for taking groups of visitors down a section of the River Ant. For views and a history of the museum see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5900985.
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Image Location
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52.767188
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1.515975