aegean on Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:15 pm
I know the Anglian Trader was there for a long time but I have no idea of her fate. I also remember the old Wall brook quite well as she laid up for a long time outside Pertwee's mill above the swinging basin in Colchester. I have an idea she was either being used as a house boat or being converted into one. I am almost certain she did not become the Nova-L but could be wrong. She was on the sand run from Brightlingsea (up the creek) to the Thames. Think she was painted either red or orange. The old memory is not what it once was.

aegean

aegean on Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:20 pm

There is also something coming back to me about the chap who was the pilot boat cox in Brightingsea - Peter Powell. He eventually became the deputy Harbour Master under Ken Goody in Colchester. Something tells me he was at some time involved with the Wallbrook though I imagine that would have been when she was working regularly in the Thames.

aegean