The Leicester Trader
Our aims...
- To establish a comprehensive archive dedicated to River Trent history and heritage
- To encourage visitors to interact with and add their own memories and photographs to the archive for future generations
- To show the importance of Newark as the base of operations of the Trent Navigation Company and after nationalisation, British Waterways, which gave employment to many local people
- To show how barges were built and repaired here and how men worked the Trent from the days of sail to the present day and show the skills involved
- To purchase and preserve the last available Trent size dumb (unpowered) barge
- To make this barge the base for the River Heritage centre and moor it at Newark Town Wharf open to the public an d for use by schools, reserach students and other interested groups
