IanM

No, £25.95 is the adult price which will also allow you back in for a year. We visited in July and we can go back at any time. The annual membership is different altogether. @Tonka They only give you wristbands if you want to go out and come back in. We were given them when we popped back to the car to grab our lunch. Nothing was given to us on the way in apart from our tickets.

I've just picked mine of the bookshelf to look at... maybe I should be wearing gloves?

Water Willow was the stern of the Small Woolwich butty Indus.

When originally restored they used second hand Thames lock gates. The steel gates and French paddle gear came later.

The Stroudwater Navigation was abandoned by Act of Parliament but then the canal was essentially left to rot which suggests an Act was required rather than just the letting it rot bit.

A quick Google suggests that all of the shots in the film were filmed at Shepperton Studios. Even the bits where people think it’s the Royal Crescent in Bath were just sets.

Looking on Google maps and the image taken on top of the bridge, it’s not been used for a long time.

Can't see anything major planned before the end of October apart from the summit being closed overnight from 8pm to 6am until 21st September. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices?page=1&tab=0&start=2024-08-28&end=2024-12-31&types=1&waterways=OX

I reckon you’re thinking too much about this. Surely you meet people with different accents all the time in every day life or do you actually just watch TV and YouTube all the time as your posts suggest and don’t actually talk to people?

My experiences of 12v hairdryers are that it's quicker to let your hair dry naturally!

There has been a website called River Severn Tales (https://www.severntales.co.uk/) around for a long time with a mix off all things River Severn and G&S Canal. There is also a YouTube channel with a whole load of quite interesting videos about the river, canal and the boat movements, etc. as well as bits and pieces from the surrounding area. https://youtube.com/@chriswitts?si=akHuhOsUqsM6K_gV Just thought I'd bring it to people's attention as you can lose a lot of time if you're not careful!

Indeed. I was going to start a separate thread to highlight his channel.

I seem to recall that the gravel barges weren't running when the grain ones were as the ones now being used for gravel were part of BW's dredging fleet which were definitely still being used in 1996 when I passed them up the canal. Tirley, one of the grain barges, went past me when I was on a college visit to Gloucester a year or so before that. The first section of the video was made about the barges being sold off before another section of film gets added for when the two larger ones were recommissioned and run on their own for a bit.

A bit of a thread revival but this video was posted to YouTube over the weekend. It's quite long but worth a look.

Absolutely the correct thing to do.