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L2024_1476 PARFIELD and IRIS ABBOT

Two historic registered motor bargest built for the Liverpool to Manchester run via the Manchester Ship Canal seen a the "Steam at the Lift" event held at Anderton Boat Lift. This featured historic vessels and steam road vehicles over the weekend iof May 11/12, 2024. This Anderton Boat Lift which links the Trent and Mersey Canal with the Weaver Navigation can be seen in the background.

For more photographs of the Steam at the Lift Event 2024 please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Canals/Steam-at-The-Lift-2024

Motor barge PARFIELD was built by Yarwoods of Northwich in 1952. Her official number was 184854.

PARFIELD worked for twenty-five years on the Manchester Ship Canal carrying general cargo.

Her main freight was taking grain to the Kellogg’s Cornflake Factory on the Bridgwater Canal in Trafford Park.

She has been sympathetically converted for extensive cruising and is the only remaining barge built by Yarwoods.

IRIS ABBOTT was built by Isaac Pimblott of Northwich for Frederick J Abbott, a barge and warehousing company in Castlefield, Manchester, using war remuneration money to order the boat.
She is built of steel, measured 70' by 14'6" to fit the Bridgewater Canal, and is still fitted with her original Gardner 4L3 engine.

She mainly worked on the Mersey, the Manchester Ship Canal and Bridgewater Canal, carrying grain to the Kellogg’s Factory.

It is said that the introduction of the IRIS caused disquiet as her turnaround time was much faster than the tugs. As well as carrying 47 tons of freight, she also operated as a tug to two other vessels.

The boat continued working on this route and others on the Bridgewater and Weaver until the Kellogg’s trade stopped in 1974.

She was then sold into private ownership and was converted for private use, with the hold becoming living accommodation and the wheelhouse extended.

Renamed to BLACK ABBOTT OF MERSEY for a while, the boat was used as a trip boat.

She did cruises as a hotel boat with visitors from her Liverpool base to Northwich and was regularly taken by her owners along the coast to the Menai Straits.

After subsequent changes of ownership, she was based back in Northwich. Having been purchased by her current owner in January 2024, she is now based near Acton Bridge, Cheshire, and being used as a liveaboard.

(Information from Historic Ships web site)

Taken in: UK / England / Anderton with Marbury / Anderton (show map)

Taken on: May 11, 2024

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