Chester IWA centenary rally
A gathering of narrow boats took place in June 2010 at Tower Wharf Chester, with over seventy boats in attendance, including the narrow-boat 'Heron' which had set out from Banbury, Oxfordshire on the 24th April, to re-enact the 1939 Cressy voyage.![speeches on the towpath (photo by Gillian Bolt)](./chester-towpath.jpg)
![Chester narrowboats (photo by Gillian Bolt)](./chester-narrowboats.jpg)
On the towpath at Chester. Left to right: David Wayne; District IWA Branch Chairman Brian Phillips making a speech; Clive Henderson,National Chairman Inland Waterways Association; Chester High Sherriff, Pat Lott; local MP, Stephen Mosley; David Stephenson; Sonia Rolt
![The blue plaque: 'LTC Rolt 1910-1974, a founder of the waterways and railway preservation movements, was born here, 11th February 1910' (photo by Peter Roberts)](./rolt-plaque.jpg)
![LTC Rolt's birthplace with the blue plaque in place (photo by Peter Roberts)](./rolt-house.jpg)
Sonia holds the blue plaque, ready to be placed on the house in Chester where Tom Rolt was born