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YEOFORD is a narrowboat, built by W. J. Yarwood & Sons Ltd. for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Ltd. (GUCCCL) at Northwich in 1937. She is one of the 'town class' and was paired with the butty YEOVIL. Her fleet number was 186 and she was registered at Coventry on 1 July 1937 as number 546. Following nationalisation in 1948, she was taken over by British Waterways. In 1965, she was sold to the Birmingham & Midlands Canal Carrying Company Ltd. who also used her for cargo carrying. YEOFORD’s interior has now been adapted for use as a camping boat, with twelve bunks, a kitchen and a toilet. She is one of the relatively few 'town class' narrowboats to survive in an original exterior form and is still operating as a traditional pair with the butty ARGON.
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Built by W.J. Yarwood Ltd for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Co. Ltd
Ownership tranferred to the British Transport Commission (Docks and Inland Waterways Executive)
Sold to the Brirmingham and Midland Canal Carrying Company Ltd
Converted for use as a camping boat with twelve bunks, an kitchen and toilet
Faulkner, Alan H, The George & the Mary, Robert Wilson, 1973
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