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Ey Up. Welcome t’Yorkshire Waterways Museum

Ey Up. Welcome t’Yorkshire Waterways Museum

No, I haven’t gone native, that’s what the sign just inside the door says. The Yorkshire Waterways Museum has an interesting collection of local boats ranging from a reproduction coracle… … to a Humber keel, descendent of the Viking longship… … to the Wheldale, the last of the tom pudding tugs. The Wheldale was built in 1959 which means there are things younger than I am being preserved in this museum. Damn! There is a story that repeats for many…

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