Page 78 - It's a Rum Life Book 3 "Ivy House Tales 1970 to 1984"
P. 78
1975
CHAPTER 14
THE ARRIVAL OF VESTA
In book two you may have read all about Sailing cutter “Peregrine”, the one we had
ordered and built at the Keightley boatyard in Boston.
That beautiful little sailing boat
came to New Bolingbroke by
way of the “Witham Navigable
Drains”.
We used the same waterways
that had brought the building
materials to build New
Bolingbroke and taken away
the produce from the numerous
new industries in that new
town.
“Pergrine” picture on the River Witham
at Chapel Hill.
Picture on right of two narrow boats
actually at New Bolingbroke on the
navigable drains. This is the way
Peregrine arrived.
The journey was the last time I was
able to enlist the help of Peter Squire
our good friend from the Woodside
Estate and Ruth’s old boss.
We had pushed and pulled that little
boat over shallows and through banks
of weed and under a new bridge at
Frithville where the rubble from the old bridge still remained in the water underneath.
Eventually local engineer Terry
Pine had “craned” “Peregrine” out
of the water just before the “basin”
at the bottom of our garden.
She spent the winter in our huge
maltings but circumstances
demanded we think hard about the
future.
Picture left of inside of Maltings.
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