Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - To dredge the River Ely - 1860's

Maybe William could have been invited to prepare the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the docks which I understand to have been the biggest non-event of the 21st century thus far!

The Railway News [435] of 17th December 1864 published the following advertisement regarding the need of a dredger by the second week of January 1865:-