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Wingfield Castle at her Hartlepool
berth, July 2017. (Nicholas Leach)ABOVE Tattershall Castle on the Thames, February 2018, in a fresh berth 100 yards further upstream, almost
opposite the London Eye, which she has occupied since returning from a major refit at Hull in 2015.ABOVE The remains of Lincoln Castle’s engine
during scrapping at Grimsby’s Alexandra Dock in- (Kenny Whyte)
ABOVE The main deck area of Wingfield Castle
today presents a major contrast to the rather
austere conditions of her operational days.and the steamer lay in London’s King George
V Dock for eight years before being purchased
by Whitbread and moved to Swansea as a
floating pub. This project collapsed when
the vessel was found to be too wide to pass
through lock gates to her proposed marina
base. She then lay in Swansea for four years
before finally returning to her birthplace in
June 1986 after being acquired by Hartlepool
Borough Council for the start of restoration.01 Paddlers_Britain_NL.indd 21 17/04/2018 09:21