Chesterfield Canal Trust launch fundraising bid for historic workboat
The Chesterfield Canal Trust has launched a fundraising bid to raise cash to maintain a 94-year-old workboat called Python.
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The trust is aiming to raise £2,000 for work on the boats hull via a GoFundMe page.
Python is one of only four remaining “Josher” narrowboats in the format of a shortened British Waterways workboat and is on the National Historic Ships register.
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Since coming to the trust in 2009, volunteers have completely restored it.
A spokesman said: “Maintaining the boat can be expensive.”