Flat Hunting - The Last Surviving Mersey Flat Boats

Mersey Flats were the workhorse of the industrial age, numbering into the hundreds on the waterways of the River Mersey Basin. Small and versatile, yet bulky and strong, they were also living vessels that families called home. They were also the unsung heroes of the industrial revolution in this part of the world, filling the hole that the railways and roads simply couldn't.

In the 20th century most were grounded, broken up and lost. Only a handful remain, most of which are decaying wrecks. I wanted to go find the last surviving ones, including one preserved at the National Waterways Museum, the skeletal remains at Spike Island in Widnes, and the oldest one of them all, the last remnants of the Daresbury, built in 1772, at the great boat graveyard at Frodsham.

Thanks to the National Waterways Museum for letting me film and giving me free-reign to have a good nosy.

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