Norfolk Wherry Trust

The Trust keeps afloat Albion, an example of the Norfolk trading wherry, so that she can be seen on the rivers and broads.

Albion was bought by the General Steam Navigation Company in the 1930s, and later she became a lighter until she was discovered by the Trust in 1949.

In February 1949, a letter in the Eastern Daily Press suggested the formation of a trust to preserve a wherry.

The fifty-year-old wherry Albion was then owned by Colman's Mustard factory and was moored at the company's works at Carrow Bridge in Norwich.

In October 1949, after restoration work, Albion sailed regularly from Great Yarmouth to Norwich, carrying timber or grain, and sugar beet from Surlingham to Cantley.