Albion - The Story of the Norfolk Trading Wherry
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Albion - The Story of the Norfolk Trading Wherry
Author: Martin Kirby
(For the Norfolk Wherry Trust)
This is the extraordinary story of one boat called Albion, whose mast and black sail stand tall above the reeds and rivers of one of Britain's great wetlands.
Albion is a Broads trading wherry, a national treasure from the nineteenth century, built in 1898 to join a working fleet. But for nearly half her life she has been the sole survivor from a lost age when the people and the economy of the region depended so much on waterborne trade.
This book, published by the Norfolk Wherry Trust to mark Albion's centenary in 1998, charts the journey of a wherry that has become a symbol of the unique character of the Broads. Her life has reflected the crisis of the waterways she still plies, and her survival epitomises the new hope and bright future of the lakes and rivers of East Norfolk and northeast Suffolk.
Author: Martin Kirby
(For the Norfolk Wherry Trust)
This is the extraordinary story of one boat called Albion, whose mast and black sail stand tall above the reeds and rivers of one of Britain's great wetlands.
Albion is a Broads trading wherry, a national treasure from the nineteenth century, built in 1898 to join a working fleet. But for nearly half her life she has been the sole survivor from a lost age when the people and the economy of the region depended so much on waterborne trade.
This book, published by the Norfolk Wherry Trust to mark Albion's centenary in 1998, charts the journey of a wherry that has become a symbol of the unique character of the Broads. Her life has reflected the crisis of the waterways she still plies, and her survival epitomises the new hope and bright future of the lakes and rivers of East Norfolk and northeast Suffolk.
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