Leeds and Liverpool Ice Boats: Key to Images used in Document

The following are thumbnails of all the images which have been incorporated as illustration to this presentation.

Thumbnail images are grouped as to context and provide a direct link to the full size picture from where further links can be made to the main document at the respective position(s) where the image has been used.

Pictures have been grouped as follows:

Operational/Archive

Site Pictures.

Construction Features

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Operational/Archive

Ice Boat Hulks in the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Kildwick, near Skipton.

Photograph circa.1972 (Mike Clarke)

An Ice Boat in Operation on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Gargrave, near Skipton (date of photograph unknown).

Photograph provided by Mike Clarke

Ice Boat at Greenberfield, Barnoldswick. (exact date of photograph unknown).

Photograph courtesy of Barnoldswick Local History Society

The Greenberfield locks at Barnoldswick. Close up shows ice boat just below the lock. (exact date of photograph unknown).

Photograph courtesy of Barnoldswick Local History Society

Site Pictures

Botany Bay Yard - Ice Boat Remains (1 of 4)

Botany Bay Yard, Armley, Leeds
Picture of the ice boat remains located approximately a mile (1.6km) from the centre of the city .

Botany Bay Yard - Ice Boat Remains (2 of 4)

Botany Bay Yard - Ice Boat Remains (3 of 4)

Botany Bay Yard - Ice Boat Remains (4 of 4)

Two views of the remains at the Niffany Site, near Skipton.

Taken March, 1994.

Construction Features

All the following images have been used to illustrate one or more of the key features of ice boat construction.

Unless otherwise stated all images are of the Lydiate Boat now at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum and were taken February, 1995.

Botany Bay Yard, Armley, Leeds.

Ice Boat Hulks on the canal at Kildwick, near Skipton.

Photograph circa.1972 (Mike Clarke)