Gathering of Historic Boats

I went to Audlem this morning to catch up with C&P at the Mill shop to find that the annual Historic Boat gathering festival here was taking place this weekend where there were narrow boats dating from around 1900 through to 1960.  Some are restored to their original carrying condition, but others are converted with cabins for living or holidaying on.    So much history and my blip is of the bedroom in 'Saturn' 'a 1906 Shropshire Union Canal fly-boat, which often worked from Audlem carrying cheeses and other goods loaded from the canal warehouse (now the Shroppie Fly Pub).  Fly-boats were timetabled to work round the clock, with horses regularly changed along the route, and crews less frequently!'  

In extra:  Saturn and the old Warehouse (now The Shroppie Fly Pub) where I placed the stone I'd found in Cornwall belonging to Thurso Rocks and which required relocating, I wonder who will find it and where it will be relocated next?

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