We are so used to seeing them sailing back and forth to the Hythe with paying passengers on board, we can forget that they were never built with that purpose in mind.
They were, instead, designed as bulk cargo carriers – the equivalent of a river versi…
A motorcyclist has been seriously injured following a crash on an Essex road on Friday afternoon (April 7). Emergency services, including the East of England Air Ambulance were called to Barfield Road, West Mersea, shortly after 12.30pm.
The crash invo…
An independent pizziera in Essex has shut its doors for the final time citing “eyewatering” personal and business costs. Cowabunga Pizza in Colchester has ceased trading – with its owners moving onto new ventures.
The business, set up by brothers-in-la…
01 Apr Beer by Barge – young trainees in deliver cargo under sail in Essex.
Young people from Essex are spending their Easter holidays delivering beer brewed in Maldon to waterside hostelries in the county by engineless Thames sailing barge. Beer from …