Victor Vectis

Yes. That's a problem with a boat called 'Red Wharf'.

I thought it was a girly button switch, starboard only. 😀

Which is....................?

Hmmmmm That looks like an organ. So...... Ma Pardoe's? ETA Just scrolled through the previous posts. I didn't cheat, honest!

I'll raise you Kingswood Basin at Lapworth since 2011. The only minor drawback being that we can't go very far without hitting locks, (lots of 'em if we head south down the GU!)

Looking at 'The Blue Book' (pages Wol 1 and Wol 2) Caponfield Furnaces were between Highfields Road and Dudley Street bridges on the Bradley Arm. It shows 4 arms off the canal on the towpath side and a 'proper' map (those familiar said Blue Book will understand) shows the canal swinging round to the right there. Edwin Butler Bayliss's work is a wonderful evocation of what the Black Country must have been like when it was living up to it's name.

Snap!

That's what I was going to say. And if The Swan failed (very unlikley) there is the Joules pub, a Titanic Brewery pub, or up past the station, the Lymestone brewery tap, The Borehole. (And there is a Spoons too) ETA I'm talking about Stone, not Penkridge.

Well said! Calcutt Top Lock a season or two ago, we were going up, a fatarse, sorry widebeam coming down. I said, perhaps a tad too loudly, 'Good Gawd. Its a fatarse'. Cue Mrs Fatarse, sorry, widebeam to the downhill end of the lock as we were rising, saying "You're only jealous 'cos you've only a scruffy narrowboat (the cheek of the woman!) and can't afford a nice £250,000 boat like we can"

My concern would be the 'sad lookng' (thank you NB 'Orleanna') houses that have sprung up by the junction since we were last there.

yeahbut.... What beer was available?

Given the state of the canals at pres they ain't doing a very good job. In future they will have to try harder!

And Where?

Youtube speak.

Yeahbut...... Why on a locklanding in London (of course) with a 'broken down' sign in a window? Saw the same boat the next day in a different location. The bloke aboard didn't take too kindly to my suggestion that he might remove the 'broken down' sign from the window.

We've moored at Lapworth for 10+ years and still haven't yet visited Packwood House. It's (still) on the 'to do' list!

Well, if they can break your arm..........?

Nice picture of part of the Lapworth Flight.

At least the second family had the sense to hire a boat before buying one. As for the Welsh family, I'm wondering how they managed to get to Thorne Lock without doing battle with THAT BL00DY FOOTBRIDGE! You know, the one that doesn't work. And when you phone CRT about it they deny all knowledge as it's owned by Thorne Town Council and when you try phoning them no one answers. < one might wonder how I know this > And........ Why does the program keep calling Thorne 'Doncaster'? Donny is about a dozen miles from Thorne.

IMHO the Blue Bell, nearer the junction, is a much nicer pub.

There's a gag in that somewhere, trying to get out! 😀 Ooops. Pardon me. More tea vicar?

I'm moored on the embankment short of Rowington. I wondered what was going on. And some folk think the BCN Challenge is crazy!

Yeahbut......if there ain't no water anyway.

Good luck to all BCN Challengers this weekend. Team 'Red Wharf' are currently dispersed, one third in Wales, one third on the IoW and the other third with the boat in South Africa, well, moored near the Cape of good Hope in Warwick getting back home following a jolly jaunt on Old Father Thames. This means, of course , that another team will have to vie for that oh so coveted and hard to obtain second to last position! 😀 Have fun, keep us all informed of events and drink some beer for us onSunday afternoon.