MHS Archive entry MHS:4294

Identification:
    Object name: newspaper cutting
    Classification: trade and professions
    Title: Mere-Built Long Boats Follow The Queen
    Brief Description: Newspaper cutting from unknown publication reporting on the canal boat ‘Wessex Excalibur’, built by Alan Bennie, which followed the Queen’s barge down the restored Kennet and Avon Canal, c.1980’s

Production:
    Date:
        Date Begin: 1980
        Date End: 1989

Association:
    Person:
        Person Name: Bennie, Alan
        Person Role: boatbuilder
    Place:
        Parish: Mere
        County: Wiltshire
    Organisation:
        Organisation Name: Wessex Narrowboats
    Event:
        Event Type: opening

Object location:  Box 57

Description:
Material: paper
Height: 21 cm
Width: 12 cm