Friday 30th Jan - RED SAILS
Red Sails explores through interviews and archive footage the influence of the Thames barge in the development of trade, and its contribution to the building of Victorian London. It also looks in detail at the craftsmen and their trades, which made the Thames barges so unique.
The screening will be supplemented with a short talk by Dr Nettleingham of Kent University, drawing on his research of how collective memory and mis-memory have shaped our understanding of what Thames barges were and have now become.
FOLOWED BY …. Q&A with Raybel director and new Chair of the Maritime Heritage Trust, Gareth Maeer, and an open discussion on how to secure and sustain those barges which still remain on the Thames and east coast.
Friday 30th Jan - RED SAILS
Red Sails explores through interviews and archive footage the influence of the Thames barge in the development of trade, and its contribution to the building of Victorian London. It also looks in detail at the craftsmen and their trades, which made the Thames barges so unique.
The screening will be supplemented with a short talk by Dr Nettleingham of Kent University, drawing on his research of how collective memory and mis-memory have shaped our understanding of what Thames barges were and have now become.
FOLOWED BY …. Q&A with Raybel director and new Chair of the Maritime Heritage Trust, Gareth Maeer, and an open discussion on how to secure and sustain those barges which still remain on the Thames and east coast.
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