Saturday 28-November-2017 is Sculptor's 82nd birthday

Sculptor - a boat built by boat builders rather than a boat built by ship builders - and so much more elegant for that.

• Sculptor is a 'Star' class boat named for the Sculptor Constellation
• Sculptor on ITV Anglia - 22-September-2014
• Sculptor on BBC Look East 16-October-2014
• Sculptor on Narrowboatworld

Saturday, 28 November 2015

80 today

Sculptor's banner to celebrate 80 - Photo: Lynda Payton
It was on 28-November-1935 that Sculptor was delivered, in her Blue/Blue livery, to the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd from WJ Yarwood's yard at Northwich.  There is to be a bit of a celebration today in Stoke Bruerne to mark the occasion. Happy birthday old girl and here's to another 80 years.











Sculptor's banner says:
  • Don't I look good for my age?
  • I was conceived on 29-December -1934 (the date she was ordered)
  • I was delivered on 28-November-1935
  • I am owned by the Canal & River Trust and looked after by volunteers from The Friends of The Canal Museum
  • I used to carry cargo for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co and was a Fire Boat during World War 2
  • I helped maintain the Shropshire Union Canal for many years and came to Stoke Bruerne in 1986 as an example of a Small Northwich working boat
Our thanks to Sarah Brown of CRT for facilitating the production of the banner.

Click here for some images of Sculptor's 80th taken by John Bannister.
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