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Our barge emerges from under the Ratho Bridge. The Bridge Inn standing next to the bridge was originally a farm house before the canal was built. A smithy stood on what is now the car park.
After passing under the Ratho Bridge, we turn the barge in the Ratho basin to pass back under the bridge again to berth at the Seagull Trust Centre.
The canal bank on the left is where many historic events for Seagull Trust Cruises have taken place:
St John Crusader I launched in 1979
Janet Telford naming 1983. Malcolm Rifkind MP is on the left. Holding the mike is Prof. John Hume, the first Chairman of the Seagull Trust.
A "Pumpathon" fundraiser and emergency exercise.
Canal Jump circa 1995. Too dodgy for health and safety now!
St John Edinburgh named by the Princess Royal, Patron of Seagull Trust Cruises, 26 November 2011.
Often two or three barges are arriving back at the same time which leads to some complicated manoeuvring in the basin. Because of its size, we always dock Mackay on the outside.
And so the cruise ends. Hope you enjoyed it!
And so the cruise ends. Hope you enjoyed it!
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