Narrowboat Briar Rose

Wednesday, 25 December 2013

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Narrowboat Briar Rose

Briar Rose is a 59ft traditional narrowboat, built by Tim Tyler and fitted out by Braidbar Boats in 2004. We bought her in April 2011.

This blog contains details of our travels on Briar Rose, as well as other waterways related posts.


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