The Flower of Gloster1967

Dick Doherty:
He's going at a fair old lick, isn't he?

Jack Roberts:
Aye, he is that - four miles an hour, no more, no less - mind you, he wouldn't do that with a really heavy leaden boat. A twenty-five tonner would take him down to three and hour. Of course he's used to it, he's been towing boats for many a long year and if you and me was to drop dead right now, he'd pull that boat of yours to Drayton Wharf and there he'd stop.

Ann Robertson:
I didn't know they still had horse-drawn boats.

Jack Roberts:
Oh aye - mind you, there's nothing like what it was. Nowadays it's mainly towing pleasure boats, holiday cruises and such but when I was a lad first on the canals they were all over the place - they used mules too, sometimes.