President

Collected Historical Images up to 1976

James Woodfield, first captain of President.

see also the Buckby Images

c 1913 Location unknown - Jimmy Woodfield (jnr) on cabin top and Sam Woodfield in engine 'ole

(Woodfield family)

c 1924 Coventry

(source postcard, sent to James Woodfield)

Mary Ann Webb steering the  Bolinder powered President between 1927 and 1932

(David McDougall)

Lou Ray, a friend and Mary Ann Webb between 1927 and 1932

(Frank Ray Collection. This image was published in NarrowBoat Magazine,  Spring 2012)

Tom Webb (on Beatrice), President's captain 1927-1937

(Source unknown)

President disappearing through bridgehole, Beatrice with Hannah Webb at tiller and Mary Ann Webb

(Birmingham Central Library)

 

1953 President at Ashton dry-dock

(Jim Peden)

18.9.1953 at Gorton Yard, Ashton, Alf Smith and J T Challinor painting

1956 in Beeston Iron Lock

(Source unknown)

c1957 at Marple

(Railway and Canal Historical Society)

24.1.1961 towing sunken flat out of Harecastle Tunnel

(Waterways Vol 6 No 53)

1964 Macclesfield Canal

(Source unknown)

August 1972 at Hayhurst Yard, Northwich - President on right

(John Milton)

July 1976 - at Malcolm Braine's yard at Norton Caines

(Nick Bostock)

11.4.1978 Restored to steamer, maiden voyage at Norton Caines

(Nick Bostock)

Just to prove that President was a steamer - the forward starboard side boiler cabin blanking plate (with four rivets)

(Richard Thomas)

President