As we know, Cambria is currently making a small tour of waterfront pubs in Essex and Suffolk delivering the Mighty Oak beer “Captain Bob”. She was last reported parked up on Brightlingsea “Hard” (this being a bit of flat, hard beach where you can safely ground a barge as the tide drops to enable loading and unloading over the sides, and a bit of hull scraping too). Here John White of the Society for Sailing Barge Research (SSBR) managed to get these striking photo’s which he has given us permission to use. Thank you John. In days gone by the loading and unloading would have been by horse and cart, driven down onto the hard alongside the barge, so the Sea Change team have had a bit of fun recreating this using the small pony and trap pictured and the Youth Trainees have been learning to use the rigging and winches to lower the beer barrels down. Brilliant!
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