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Friday, 12 March 2004

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Job King

Am so pleased to see the picture of Lyra! I was raised on the canals. When my sister Charity and I got too big for our family's boat, Freedom No4 a 72foot houseboat (formerly 1895 Joey, then later known as Plymouth before becoming a hotel boat in the 1960s). Think we bought it in 1991 from Warwickshire Fly Boats, and my dad finished off the conversion under the old covers. Charity lived here and I lived in the back-cabin. There we stayed moored at Long Buckby Wharf until my parents seperated in 2001 while I was at Loughborough University and Charity at Southampton. Mum bravely survived the winter alone maintaining both boats, before we reluctantly decided to sell up. As a family we were pretty unique to the cut (were only 3 others we knew), we appeared on Country File and in Good Housekeeping. Dad turned down an invitation to be family of the week on the Big Breakfast (which was of course staged next to the canal). Hope that helps to fill you in. Thank you for bringing back some brilliant memories. I will probably move back onto the boats at some point.

Job King

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