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IanD

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  3. Two world-class football clubs eh? Sounds like a good reason to stay away to me... 😉
  4. It won't put me off, it's just that last time we did the Caldon we were only intending to stay at the Black Lion overnight but for some reason our departure got delayed by a day... 😉
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  6. That's a shame, it used to be great. Wonder if it'll ever get back to how it was? 😞
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  9. I'll ask again -- any recent feedback on the Black Lion? (the Caldon's on our list of possibles for this year)
  10. Also a hydrofoil ferry is one of the best possible shipping uses for electric power, because they're far more efficient than displacement vessels, in terms of total energy used for a trip and required battery size as well as being faster.
  11. True, but there's probably still information around in lots of places -- especially newspaper back issues or articles, if they still exist, but also some web pages -- that predates Tuel Lane (and was never updated) which still says they're the tallest.
  12. 'twas ever thus, except in the old days you had to go to a library and borrow a book on specialist subjects if you wanted more detail and accuracy than TV could offer -- always assuming the library had one (they often didn't) or could get one in on inter-library loan (they often couldn't)... 😞 If you can sort the gold from the dross, there's a *huge* amount of good material out there nowadays -- videos and reading -- on almost anything you can think of, no matter how obscure or specialised -- and it's much easier to access this material than it used to be, thanks to the internet. Unfortunately there's also a massive swamp of complete cr*p -- which often looks the slickest! -- posted by people who either don't understand what they're talking about or are being deliberately misleading to promote their own interests... 😞
  13. The Black Lion at Consall Forge used to be absolutely splended, chickens and all, but they had a bad fire a couple of years back and AFAIK have not completely reopened, at least for the excellent food they used to do as well -- I presume the beer is as good as ever, anyone been recently to confirm what it's like now?
  14. Of course a discussion was expected, but some of the complaints just don't make sense given that it was a general interest TV programme about the canals not an in-depth online tutorial for students studying industrial archaeology... 😉
  15. Strawman argument again... 😉 What I said was that the programme is aimed at the 50+million people in the UK who don't live on or holiday on the canals or know much about them, not the 50000 or so people who do, some of who post on CWDF. Just like CART funding and priorities. Is this really so hard to understand?
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