What a shame it is that no attempt was made to preserve even one of these clinker built craft which were so common a site on the river in times gone by.
Instead they were dumped close by Newburn bridge during the 60's where I believe the last traces of them are still visible today.

I think there is one in storage at Beamish Museum. A big one as well. I am sure I found a reference to it on the web somewhere.

Bit of a write up here and photos:

http://heddonhistory.weebly.com/1/post/ ... rries.html

Thanks for posting the info Whickham, I found it very interesting.