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Buggering up the Barrow

Posted on Sunday 11 September 2011 | 2 comments

Have you ever wondered, as you grounded on a sand bar or fought a current upstream, quite why the River Barrow is so challenging?

Here is a confession (with photos) from the man wot done it — in 1931 ….

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