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Heartland

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  1. I wonder if Pluto could state if he suspects where the breach occurred may be a date might assist identification. The largest embankmentv being at Burnley is that where it was?

     

    As to my last an easy one it was Bradeshall 

     

     

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  2. It may take two, but some industrial actions adopt extreme measures. The cause was through changing grades for a few bin workers by Birmingham Council, presently Labour controlled. And being Labour there is a favourable attitude to unions, but this decision was brought on through another action "equal pay for women" and the union UNITE interpretation of what equal pay meant. That included parity with a certain group of bin workers. The bin workers affected have claimed that they would loose a considerable amount of money, if their particular grade was abolished. Today it has emerged that UNITE have a case to answer as two of the three bin depots concerned decided to agree to the pay deal some time ago. UNITE used to be a caring union, but in recent times have become predatory choosing where to have their actions and ignoring the needs of their members elsewhere. At the heart of their bin workers actions are the beliefs and opinions of senior Unite staff and it is perhaps time to highlight their involvement as up to now they have hidden in the shadows expecting the media to crucify Birmingham Council and brand them totally as the guilty party.

     

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  3. I assume these people put the ladders over the side of the lock, rested them against the wall and then climbed down

     

    It would be an interesting risk assessment today

     

    Including

    ladder slips

    Falling into lock

    and issues with wind, rain and ice

     

    And was there a stoppage in place?

  4. The Bin strike has affected the residents and the strikers had adopted tactics to stop bin lorries leaving the depots. What ever is believed right or wrong their actions are like the times of past where the people on strike are hell bent to achieve their aims at whatever cost. The police will now arrest those adopting the vehicle delay by walking in front of the vehicle. My bin was emptied today, the last time was four weeks ago.

  5. The breach of the Macclesfield canal came about with part of the towpath leaking and then giving way it had been featured on social media but evidently not on this forum.

     

    CRT engineers attended the site on 28th March and have installed stop planks at Bridge 51 and 53

    The repair is said to take 12 weeks

     

  6. Here is a 1930's o/s of the canal and power station-

     

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    The cooling towers in the earlier image are shown in the correct alignment with the original power station buildings on the right. From the angle of the photograph the rail sidings could be obscured, but the wharf used by the boats can be seen between the bridge and the transformers

     

  7. Yes it was Acton Lane Power Station and the wharf on the Canal was close to Acton Lane Bridge

     

    It was a generating station with a long life being commissioned in 1899. That was later the A station and the B Station was the one with the concrete cooling towers

     

  8. With the cooling towers they were close to the Paddington Branch of the GU Canal and they were at Willesden Power Station, when I went there to photograph the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn loco, I recall the concrete tower there.

     

    It would be of interest to discuss the type of traffic Sabey carried

     

  9. This is an image from the 1880's of the reconstruction of the lock 85 on the Rochdale Canal in Manchester, with a drained bed of the canal and overhead form of a broad gauge tramway to assist with construction. 

     

    Any comments?

     

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  10. Yes I did that too, but there was one which seems to be at Brecon. When the Usk salmon fishery was formed in the 1850's there small salmon might find their way into the canal from the Usk. Iron grating was placed at the mouth of the feeder about 1855 to prevent the young salmon passing into the canal

    The water that passed into the canal was considerable it seems and that water also supplied firms along the banks and also passed into the Monmouthshire Canal would eventually reach the Usk again at Newport.

     

    I believe the entrance was south of the ford which itself was south of Monmouth Bridge.

     

     

     

  11. Yes it was easy

    The removal of the bridge that crossed the entrance to Hay Basin I believe was then a recent work

    But if you look closely it seems the boatmans mission behind the cottages was still standing which is another date for when it was taken down is another question.

  12. As to 

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    This image was at Great Linford on the Grand Junction Canal

    Alan Faulkner has a similar image in his book for the Grand Junction Canal which shows the entrance to the Newport Pagnell Branch

    The above image is from the Waterways Archive Collection

     

    And now from my own collection taken in 1978 a image which should be easy.

     

     

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  13. The size of this bridge is also of interest especially as to getting a boat through it

     

    I shall also post a vintage image which is dated 1882 and shows an ice boat and was at a junction of the main canal with a branch canal somewhere south of Brum

     

     

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    This is before the Guiness Book of Records, otherwise it might be an applicant for the greatest number of people on an ice boat !

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