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It also says "Alternatively, please contact us on 0303 0404040."

I’ve always thought the ultimate mix of units are tyre sizes. Wheel diameter in inches, width in millimetres and side wall height as a percentage

Just found this web page which has a few pictures. https://www.stroudiecentral.co.uk/dudbridge-to-stroud-cycle-track-and-gas-works/

I, and I am sure most if not all people on here, have never heard of anyone choosing the amount of anodes depending on what canal they wish to spend most of their time on.

There's a few here https://glosdocs.org.uk/gsia-rowbotham-images/

You're probably not wrong however I should think that regional variations don't come in to a majority of people's reasoning for the number and placement of anodes. It certainly didn't with ours.

I did get that but it came across as just copying a picture and associated text from somewhere and dumping it in a topic without any thought. Maybe if you had put a few words of your own to help generate the discussion then that would have helped. It was more the use of the Britain From Above image than the one of the Trow but anyway... At the time of proposal and survey the Stroudwater Navigation was viewed as an extension to the River Severn which at the time did not have a towpath for horses/mules so therefore one wasn't provided. Gangs of men did the towing on the Severn and it was assumed that the same would happen on the Stroudwater. There would have been some sort of path but not to the width or standard of one for horses. Eventually one was added but I can't recall at what date. A lot of the towing was done by mules walking side by side. Stroud Gasworks were on a site between the canal and River Frome on Gas House Lane, now known as Chestnut Lane. The canal obviously brought in coal for the gasworks and the towpath made a convenient route to lay a gas main. Coal to the gasworks was later brought in by rail along the Midland Railway's Stroud branch line which ran alongside the river at a higher level. There was a siding and a wagon turntable on the branch line where coal wagons were turned and the coal tipped down a chute to a narrow gauge railway below which ran into the gasworks. The siding and tip appears on the 1938 OS map but not the 1922 so was probably constructed as trade on the canal was decreasing (the Thames & Severn having been abandoned totally in 1933). I did find the remains of the wagon turntable when poking around the undergrowth about 35 years ago. Link to the 1938 OS map of the site: https://maps.nls.uk/view/109727533#zoom=5.7&lat=8719&lon=6990&layers=BT I believe the last delivery of coal to the gasworks by barge was by the 'Stanley' in 1941 and indeed was the last commercial toll paid on the canal. I got talking to someone beside the canal once who had witnessed the barge returning empty down the locks at Eastington.

I think I would have taken the pram hood down though before driving off.

We bought this Monkey’s Fist doorstop from the rope-makers at Chatham.

A towpath was not provided when the canal was first built. One was subsequently added. Please stop just cutting and pasting things from elsewhere on the internet without checking facts or indeed respecting copyright.

I think @MtB meant @blackrose, not the OP.

In @LadyG’s defence, our Webasto doesn’t have a thermostat and I imagine that a lot of other installations don’t either. We have valves on the flow and return to the radiators so we can turn them off during the summer and just keep the flow to the calourifer. Other than that it is as she says, off or on.

This was discussed on here recently when it was questioned why it was going to cost x thousands (or was it millions) of pounds to pile several hundred metres of a reservoir dam somewhere.

The first of the boats are out of the hole.

More work being done in this video including the spider digger at work.