Waterdog loading in Wakefield 1961

This was scanned from a magazine dated 1961 and shows Waterdog loading with a cargo of sacks somewhere. The bow has thick fendering around it which was found to be a steel box with concrete inside it when Lorna bought the boat. This was cut off as it was pretty rotton but in recent photographs you can still see the outline and the rusty plating that was behind it. The hatch boards are now made into a permanent roof but we have retained the wedge system for keeping the tarp held down on the top. The barge is in British Waterway colours and the accomadation for the 2 men was just the curved forpeak, forward of the cargo hold. There was a bunk either side and a coal stove in the centre, the chimney of which can be seen here, infront of the mast.