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Heybridge Basin (Cannibal
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James
'Jimmy' Woodcraft |
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Shipping
Agent, boatbuilder, owner of Barges and a Marine Store, and publican. |
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1890 -
1902 prop of 'The Old Ship'. |
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1906 - 1937. James 'Jimmy' Woodcraft
Shipping Agent. |
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1926. Changed to James
'Jimmy' Woodcraft & Son. |
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Lived in the 'Two Ways'
Lane 'Old Ship', and had a Marine Store in part of the 'Granary'
by the Basin. Jimmy also owned the following barges in the canal,
'Jimmy', 'Ardrow' and the 'Marie'. |
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(above) the black building
with the red roof is 'Jimmy' Woodcraft's Marine Store, his sign
can be seen on the side wall. The two girls on the extreme left
are standing in front of 'The Old Ship' pub where he also lived.
They are possibly his barges tied up on the other side of the
'watering hole'. |
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