Punting On The Avon (Antigua Boat Sheds)
Striped Victorian riverside boat shed still hiring rowboats, canoes and punts on a willow-lined river.
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This guide to the Antigua Boat Sheds on the Avon in Christchurch opens on a July day in 1882, when boat builder Albert Shaw launched a boat from this bank and staked his living on a shallow river. Along the way you'll meet his partner Tidd, a hotel venture, a fire in 1907 and a son who came back in 1920. Best heard standing by the wooden ramp, with the striped sheds beside you.
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