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Old 30-08-2014, 10:29 AM
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Very interesting stuff Coquet, thankyou
The gunboat must have been moored in the river near by the granary just upriver from the current end of the Braid as it was within hailing distance. Tragic how that 1/2 mile stretch of road seems to continually claim lives upto the present day.
The road in those days would have been prone to flooding at spring tides and when the river was in flood, the braid being a series of mudbanks and gulleys long before it became the tip / ballast spoil area and landscaped as it is now.
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