| | Norfolk Thatched House by River Yare Norfolk Broads UK |
 | | By John's time, the wherries were motorised and perhaps less stately, the fl sails having long been discarded firstly to compete with the railways which had nevertheless already taken much of their business but also to manage the menial tasks to which they had been relegated, like the removal of dredging spoil. |
 | | But John spent much of his time on the river, working with wherries such as the Maud which, like many of the old wooden boats at the end of their days, was eventually sunk to form river bank reinforcement. |
 | | He had spent many a long day with her, standing in the stern at the tiller without cover in all weathers, chugging slowly down the Yare to Yarmouth or going up the Bure or even threading up its tributaries into the broads of that northern system. |
| www.norfolkbroads.com /focus/area/yarecottage (1059 words) |