IanM

It wasn’t that long ago when all that was private with only limited access to the mansion by appointment only.

But what is this admin burden you speak of? We do hear it all the time how everyone is too busy to do even the most simple of tasks but I think in reality the amount of admin a boater has to do on a day to day basis is minimal. Please don’t go down the route of the food delivery apps who are constantly suggesting that shopping is a waste of one’s time!

Ok, not the best choice of words but yours isn't the first post on here asking similar questions. I would like one with a few buttons. Engine start, set off, moor up, and engine stop. It would then log the times and GPS position of each action and produce a log of where I've moored, what time I started, etc which could then be exported into Excel either by day or a range of dates. An alert which detects when the boat hasn't moved for a while to remind me to stop recording would be handy. Oh, and I don't really want to pay for it. The thing with a stoppage notification and reporting type app is you need to get CRT on board really for it to be useful else it would become some sort of 'secret' club that only the app users know what is going on. "Subscribe for £7.99 a month to get stoppage notices or pay £11.99 a month for our premium stoppage alert service to get stoppage alerts as they happen" 😄 Then you have the data coverage issue as not everyone is going to have signal all the time. Also what is an important issue to one person isn't to another. If people started reporting every low hanging branch because they had to duck slightly it would soon become tiresome.

Because people like the OP keep telling them that they need them to make life easier and to fix problems that don't need fixing. A company I worked for developed an app to record production data because the board of directors desperately wanted an app because "you have to have an app". They spent a lot of time trying to find something that an app would be suitable for and at the end of the day it did nothing different to what the production software did anyway.

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.