William goes off to sea

摘要

As with the Just William of children's fiction, an encounter with narrowboat William was generally likely to result in trouble. Throughout the 1960s, William's role as a Paddington-based youth boat made him one of the best known craft on the entire waterways system.Built in 1929 at Walker Bros' Rickmansworth yard, timber-hulled William spent a 30-year working life carrying Midlands coal down the Grand Union to the King's Langley Ovaltine factory.