Boat-OX FACE-OFF
The Castle Mill boat yard in Jericho near Oxford, which has been squatted since last summer, is in danger of eviction. This is the last public boatyard on the Oxford Canal used by residential boat owners, and operates as a boat maintenance facility. British Waterways, who own the site, are in the process of flogging it off for (guess what) luxury housing and want to sell it without sitting tenants. With an eviction due any time, nine of the narrow boats – people’s houses – have been craned on to the wharf for urgent and needed hull repairs, and are therefore unable to move. Bailiffs and police came this Wednesday, but couldn’t move the beached boats.
* NEXT EVICTION ALERT: Bailiffs are due again at the Castle Mill boatyard on Monday May 15th at 10am – get down there to lend support.
* For directions and updates call 01865 559481 or visit http://www.portmeadow.org
* For updates and phone tree text your number to 07788 915545.
