Victoria and Chris Bonner spent a year and a half converting the 57ft vessel
and you see people crying in a caravan, and we’ve had some moments like that.” Chris added about the money they spent on the project: “Some of the businesses around here have probably spent more on their signs than our whole budget.
The barge is moored on Leeds Dock, where it once collected coal, and is the last of its kind in the region, with others scrapped or moved further afield. Image: Bruce Rollinson "I guess someone with a much bigger budget than us would have paid a team of people to come and do things in a fraction of the time that I’ve done them by watchingThe store, which is named Hold Fast Bookshop and opens from Thursday to Sunday, will stock hundreds of second-hand and new editions. And Victoria, who has been married to Chris for 28 years and previously worked in a library, said the couple had always wanted to own a literature shop.
Victoria also said she had met the vessel’s former mechanic, who once helped it run smoothly on Yorkshire’s shipping canals under the eye of its eccentric former captain. She said: “We bumped into a man when he was just walking his dog with his granddaughter, and it turned out he used to do maintenance on the boat in Wakefield.
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