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