Press & clippings

The yard does not chase the papers, but the papers come to the quay. A short shelf of clippings hangs in the museum stairwell. The house line for anything printed: the last full-length ropewalk on the river Brant, walking rope since 1874.

In the files

• “The yard that walks backwards”, Brantside Courier, 1979 — on the Brant Maid dredger line.
• “Rope, and the people who walk it”, Coastal Arts Quarterly, 2006.
• “The freeze of ’63, remembered on the quay”, Brantside Courier, January 2013.
• “A listing for the listing”, County Planning Gazette, 2004, on the walk’s protected status.

All publications and quotes invented for this demonstration site. Press enquiries go to the office on the quay.