Thank you ferry much
PASSENGERS using Lynn's popular Ferry across the River Great Ouse are going to find their lives easier in future – thanks to a floating pontoon.
The ferry, which runs from Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm, currently allows passengers to embark and disembark on each side of the river.
Steps on the West Lynn side can prove a potential hazard, however, as they can become covered by the tide, causing deposits of silt to build up.
Operator Steve Kingston has been known to get up in the early hours in winter, to ensure any mud is cleared and does not freeze.
However, with the visit of tall ship the Earl of Pembroke this summer to help mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of famous seafarer Captain George Vancouver in Lynn, a floating pontoon and bridge was acquired to allow visitors on to it and this is now being transferred to the ferry service.
Mr Kingston, who operates the service with his wife, Gail, welcomed the addition of the pontoon which, it is hoped, will be installed, with the help of piling, in January or February of next year.
“There will now be a level platform for people to step on to,” he said, adding that the pontoon and bridge would not become covered by the tide.
A spokesman for West Norfolk Council said that the council had bought the pontoon and bridge as part of the Captain Vancouver Festival and that it was being installed with the help of Norfolk County Council and Persimmon Housing Developments.
There has been a ferry across the Great Ouse since at least 1285, saving a lengthy road journey.
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