My gran used to live at wester hailes about thirty years ago, I take it things have changed a bit since then as you wouldn't of been able to move in canal from shopping trolleys and stolen cars and if you did manage to get a boat on the kids would stone you to death!!! Love the barge bye the way do you live aboard?
Not worthy of a new thread because its finished so will derail this one I butchered a nice narrowboat and converted it into an arb work boat. Its got a keel cooled 9" chipper bolted in ,small crane, hydraulic winch, takeoffs for underwater saws and hydraulic bow thruster.