Two boats burned

TWO narrowboats were burnt out on Monday (24th October) on the Coventry Canal.

Firefighters were called to the waterway around 10pm as two boats were on fire near Wash Lane Bridge (21) at Nuneaton, and managed to get the blaze under control. This is the bridge by the  Cock & and Bear Inn, a stopping place for boaters, Alan Tilbury reports.

Well alight

Fire crews from both Rugby and Nuneaton attended, with a spokesman telling that the two boats 'were well alight'.  There was no report of any casualties.

It is on this canal that a narrowboatworld photograph of a burnt-out boat at its junction with the Oxford Canal was used by the Warwickshire Fire Service to publicise the danger of fire in boats.