4-803: The Norfolk Wherry Trust is a waterway society and UK registered charity number 1084156, based at Womack Water near Ludham in the Norfolk Broads , Norfolk , England . The Trust keeps afloat Albion , an example of the Norfolk trading wherry , so that she can be seen on the rivers and broads . Albion was built in 1898 - unusually - as a carvel wherry in oak on oak frames, by William Brighton, Lake Lothing , Suffolk (between Oulton Broad and Lowestoft ) for Bungay maltsters W. D. and A. E. Walker. All other trading wherries in East Anglia were clinker built. Albion' s first load
8-476: The black-sailed ex-trader Albion carried a total of 648 persons; at any one time she can carry up to 12 people, plus skipper and mate. This article about a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to water transport is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Waterway society A waterway society
12-511: The company's works at Carrow Bridge in Norwich . In October 1949, after restoration work, Albion sailed regularly from Great Yarmouth to Norwich , carrying timber or grain , and sugar beet from Surlingham to Cantley . However, freight alone could not sustain Albion , and from 1961 she carried passengers. In 1981 the trust acquired a base at Womack Water near Ludham. During 1997,
16-618: Was coal from Lowestoft to Bungay. Albion was bought by the General Steam Navigation Company in the 1930s, and later she became a lighter until she was discovered by the Trust in 1949. In February 1949, a letter in the Eastern Daily Press suggested the formation of a trust to preserve a wherry. The fifty-year-old wherry Albion was then owned by Colman's Mustard factory and was moored at
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