Anson

All steel welded motor boat 70’0” x 6’10”

Built Isaac Pimblott & Sons Ltd, Northwich

2/1959 Delivered to British Transport Waterways, NW Division Carrying Fleet

17/2/1959 Registered Northwich No 107

1964 Hired to Willow Wren Canal Transport Services Ltd (NW Division)

1966 Sold to Birmingham & Midland Canal Carrying Co Ltd, fleet no 10

1972 Converted to trip boat at Preston Brook & Bollington, entering service in Birmingham in 1974

1/2006 Sold to Birmingham Canal Boat Services Ltd as part of the winding up of the Birmingham & Midland company, to continue the trip boat operations

1/2011 Sold to Party Boats (Birmingham) on winding up of Birmingham Canal Boat Services, to continue trip boat operations

2023 Sold and to undergo refit for continued passenger boat use at Preston Brook