Posted by Jock on November 16, 2008 at 20:32:11 user Jock.
In Reply to: Barges, was Google Maps (was Tie points - posted by Claire on November 16, 2008 at 19:22:49:
Hi Claire, Congratulations on posting the 33,000 TarBoard post. (A month ago I don't think many of us held out
much hope that there would be a 33,000 post!)
Anyway to answer your questions, the Horsey lighters are made of steel, so they'll be around for a few years yet.
Here are pictures of two Thames lighters. Sarah is a wooden lighter, gently returning to nature. The other is a
steel lighter at Brentford Lock on the Grand Union canal in the 1980s, much as I remember from my school days,
some 20 years earlier.