Buckby Photographs - information courtesy of Richard Thomas
Boat Description of photograph Location Reference
       
COUNT Heading down locks with 4 crew Tied back to tail of lock 8 C Newton, H McK
QUEEN Heading down locks with 2 crew 1910.  Driver Billy Westwood  Tied back to tail of lock 8 BW 4449
JASON (Charles Nelson) Heading down locks with 3 crew, a woman and a child) Tied back to tail of lock 8 BW 2612
SULTAN From offside above bridge, with 3 crew Tied back to bridge 13 below lock 8 BW 2363, 3496
       
VULCAN F/l tied backwith 5 crew 1910  Possibly tied back to head of lock 9  BW2367, 3492, EP D4163
BARON  Tied back making stern wash with 4 crew. Funnel has 2 brass bands Above lock 9 at maltings below bridge 13 BW 793, 3491
PRESIDENT Tied back making stern wash with 4 crew.Captain J Woodfield Above lock 9 at maltings below bridge 13 BCLM 2000/76/1
       
PHOENIX Being gauged in gauging lock.  House (now gone) in background left In lock 9 BW 4324
       
       
BARON with butty BILSTON Above lock 10 Jim Marshall
PRINCE with butty NENE  Above lock 10 TW King collection
       
COLONEL with butty WATFORD Above lock 11 BW 4448
COUNT with butty TIPTON from offside Above lock 11 BW2373/3499
COUNT with butty BUCKBY Above lock 11 BW 2382, 3500
EARL with butty WARWICK  Above lock 11 AF collection
GENERAL 1910. Loaded with 16 ton of sugar J Neal steerer his son as driver 4 crew in all Tied back to lock 11 BW 2387, 3493, AF
MARQUIS 1910 Tom Ward at tiller. 4 crew in all Tied back to lock 11 BW 2366, 3494  EPD5601
PHOENIX 1910 with 2 crew  Tied back to lock 11 BW 2385, 3490
PRESIDENT 1910 Captain Jim Woodfield, driver Sam Woodfield Tied back to lock 11 RT collection
SULTAN 1910 with 3 crew  Tied back to lock 11 pc
THE KING 1910  from left G Gfr, Uncle, Gfr of J W Carter Tied back to lock 11 BW 2388, 3497
     
BARONESS From offside. Aft half close up with 3 crew.  C Newton standing in engine ole Tied back and recorded as at Long Buckby but exact location uncertain BW 2386, 3495, EP D5777, P101 Tom Chaplin Narrowboat
VANGUARD From offside. Aft half close up with 2 crew  Location unknown but thought to be at Long Buckby J Yates
       
       
Sequence of Structures Top Lock 7/ Bridge 11(A5)/ Bridge 12/ Lock 8/ Bridge 13 and Maltings/ Lock 9 (Gauging Lock)/ Railway Bridge/ Lock 10/ Bridge 14/ Lock 11/ Lock 12/ Bridge 15/ Bottom Lock 13
       
       
FMC steamers which weren't photographed (or the images are lost)
Boat Description of photograph
ADMIRAL Missing
COUNTESS Leased to John Dickinson & Co, in their livery and probably working between Dickinson's factory and London
DUCHESS Sold in 1893
DUKE Missing
EMPEROR Missing
EMPRESS Missing
HECLA Missing
MONARCH Missing
PIRATE Sold in 1902
PRINCESS Leased to John Dickinson & Co, in their livery and probably working between Dickinson's factory and London
SPEEDWELL Missing
SWAN Built 1911, Dismantled 1913. Wide boat, only worked the southern end of the GJC
VICEROY Missing
VICTORIA Missing
VICTORY Missing
   
For more detailed information onthe other FMC Steamers see Richard Thomas's site http://www.steamershistorical.co.uk/

Last edited:- 18-Jul-2009