First I saw this unusually named boat:
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart appeared in many Doctor Who adventures.
And I hardly need say that the Tardis is the Doctor's bigger-inside-than-out time transport machine.
Both boats were on the Grand Union between Cosgrove and Stoke Bruerne.
I wonder what other Doctor Who boats are out there.
How many times can FS get stuck and who Is that at the end of the tunnel?
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Dec 14th
This morning we decided to do the rest of the Stoke Bruerne flight. The
water levels in the long pound had stayed very low, which caused FS to ...
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We've got one in Cambridge called Davros.
I don't think I've seen any Doctor Who themed boats, but I started a list of those linked to Tolkien. Maybe as interesting would be an über-list of themes that boat-namers have tied into. I've seen some Harry Potters.
I refer the homourable gentleman to [about half way down]
http://nbtortoise.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/boats-names-again-not-just-bad-puns.html
Ah, yes, Gallifrey. Thanks Simon.
My late partner was part owner of this boat. In an extensive refurb, they decided re-named it The Lethbridge-Stewart circa 2006/7 after some discussion and my telling them the only narrowboat (to the best of my knowledge) seen in Doctor Who was that which Kate L-B was seen living on in the 1995 direct to video Reeltime production Downtime.
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