Hi anyone who can help this is my 8 year old daughters home work and I'm struggling to find out any info will help but if your not sure then please put not sure so we know!.
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Thanks all BarryWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Oh, I just e-mailed you the info as Y! said that info could not be posted!.!. oh well!. Hope this helps!. Ok I founs something, this is some homework for an 8 yearold! By the latter part of the 19th century it was common practice to paint roses and castles on both narrow boats themselves and their fixtures and fittings!. Common sites include the doors to the cabin, the water can or barrel and the side of the boat along with ornate lettering giving the boat's name and owner!. The origin of the roses and castles found on canal boats is unclear!. The first written reference to them appears to be in an 1858 edition of the magazine Household Words in one of a series of articles titled “On the Canal” but while this shows that the art form must have existed by this date it doesn’t provide us with an origin!. For some time a popular suggestion was that it had some form of Gypsy origins however there does not appear to be a significant link between the Gypsy and boater communities!. Other suggestion include transfer of styles from the clock making (in particular the decoration on the face) industry, the japanning industry or the pottery industry!. There is certainly a similarity in style and a geographical overlap but no solid proof of a link!. There are similar styles of folk art in Scandinavia, Germany, Turkey and Bangladesh!. In the eighteenth century the similar Dutch "Hinderloopen" paintwork would only have been a sailing barge journey away from the Thames!. There is also an article in the Midland Daily Telegraph of the 22nd of July 1914 that credits the practice painting of water cans at least to a Mr Arthur Atkins!. The date of the events make the claim possible but would require the household words article to be reporting on the very start of a phenomenon rather than as its tone suggests something that had existed for some time!. Until further evidence comes to light it is impossible to support or deny the claim that Arthur Atkins was responsible for the start of the practice and thus the origin of the paintings remains uncertain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Because most of the canal boaters live in countries where there are castles - that is, they live in Europe!. There are people in Asian countries who also live on canal boats, but they don't have castles!.!.!.!.!. That means that your daughter is likely doing a unit on some European city, such as Venice, where canals take the place of roads!.Www@QuestionHome@Com because it is the link to the land the road is the way from the land to the water the bridge is the transition from land to waterWww@QuestionHome@Com trying asking in this forum http://www!.boatingforum!.co!.ukWww@QuestionHome@Com |