Sunday 8 October 2017

Think I’ve turned into a water baby


After finishing reading about the adventures of horticulturist Alys Fowler kayaking her way around the Birmingham waterways I’m now moving onto Sarah Henshaw’s story about her bookshop on her canal barge.


The boat alone cost £25,000 which Sarah found on Google. Moored on the Grand Union canal in Warwick  it was moved to a marina near the brewing town and Marmite metropolis of Burton-on-Trent where she set about converting it into a book shop.


The Book Barge opened in June 2009 and could be seen chugging up and down the country.  I’m not going to say anymore in case you want to read it yourself.  Well, I’ll just say there’s a lot of adventures and I would have loved to have been a part of it all.

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2 comments:

  1. A bookshop on a barge! What a lovely idea! xxx

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  2. Ta dah! There's a book barge and a cheese barge which have visited Walsall regularly for years. We drove past Sarah's barge when we were coming back from End Of The Road, it looked lovely! xxx

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