Description

A talk on the restoration of SND Steam Dredger No. 4 with a tour of the dredger, the vertical boiler Balmforth Steam Crane and the Fielding and Platt Oil Engine.

Built in 1925 for the Sharpness New Docks company and supplied with two pairs of clogs, the dredger has had a long a productive life dredging the Gloucester Docks and the Sharpness canal. Now a Museum exhibit she has been carefully restored by Friends of the Museum and Museum staff to full working order following her capsize 1990.

We plan for the even to begin at 18:30 for 19:00 on Wednesday the 12^th of February at the Gloucester Waterways Museum, GL1 2EH.

We look forward to seeing you there for a most interesting event.

Directions.

By car

Gloucester Waterways Museum is located in Gloucester's historic docks. From M5 junctions 11a or 12, the A38, A40 or A417, follow the brown signs to Historic Gloucester Docks. The entrance to the Museum car park is from the east end of Llanthony Road.

Please do not approach from the west over the Llanthony lift bridge as it is for busses and taxis only with an enforced fine!

Car parking

Pay and display parking outside the museum and elsewhere in the docks.

For further information please visit the Gloucester Waterways website; http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/gloucester-waterways-museum

Download the Steam Dredger Poster (and please display at your place of work).