Between Bridges – Les Reid
Les Reid runs Newark’s unique Heritage Barge ‘Leicester Trader’. It is the last Trent size cargo barge built to fit the old locks of the Trent Navigation Company. Saved from being scrapped in 2008 and renovated by Les and a group of local barge aficionados, the dumb barge is now a floating museum, currently moored in the lee of the imposing 900 year old Newark castle ruins.
Here Les tells us all about what ‘between bridges’ means to the men and women who worked barges on the River Hull and in the second film he provides the commentary to a 1960s cine film of a working trip to and from the aggregate wharfs on the River Hull and Girton gravel pit on the River Trent.
Between Bridges from Drypool to North by Frank Drasdo
Between Bridges from Drypool to North – Hull Daily Mail
Between Bridges from Drypool to North by George Parkes
Between Bridges – Drypool Bridge by Brian Latus
Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard
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