I REGRET the caption on the Worcester Bridge photograph is far adrift.
The "Betsey", probably the oldest sailing boat in the world in 1930 when the picture was taken is moored at the bridge.
It was under contract to a London firm of civil engineers which is driving piles preparing to widen the carriageway.
The cast iron canopy designed by Leader Williams was about to be destroyed and Sir Edward Elgar saved a three-ton length of the parapet which is now in my garden.
The "Betsey" continued in service with the river engineers until the 1950s. As the sole surviving clinker built Trow from the hundreds which worked from Welshpool to Gloucester it was unfortunate it was not preserved in a museum.
R M SINCLAIR,
Lower Broadheath.
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