Boats awaiting the crowds

The 'Ice Cream Boat' and historic Short Boat Kennet moored up awaiting the crowds at the Burnley Canal Festival. In the background, Bilbo Baggins waits patiently for his enclosure to be finished so that he can help demonstrate 'tacking up' to pull the Horseboating Society boat Elland.

Photograph taken by opener on 8 September 2012 and was added to the database on Wednesday the 26th of September, 2012

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