Dorlan
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The earlier guides I have are on the boat, so I couldn't check them, but I vaguely remember that when I started boating in the late 70's the bridge was still in occasional use!There's a page about the history of the swingbridge on the Oxford Preservation Trust's website. There are some more pages about it here and here.
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According to the 1983 edition of Nicholsons, it was still in use then...
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The Star class had four cylinders, while this one has two. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's an early-ish Saint!
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Stretton Under Fosse. Possibly Oxford Canal near Wolvercote Lock?
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Lock nine appears to be the tightest lock on the flight. Napton lock 9 thread
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www.diagonallock.org
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Phil Speight's 2006 guide to painting a boat, including varnishing!
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Correct! The pump at Calcutt is going, but the level of the pound between Calcutt bottom and Stockton top lock was down at least six inches yesterday. It's recovered an inch or two today. There's still a lot of water going over the by-weirs, though. Napton reservoir is quite low, as well.
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It's back-pumped directly from the bottom lock at Napton to the top lock at Marston Doles. The course of the pipeline, laid a few years ago, can be clearly seen on Bing Maps!
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It's back-pumped all the way up from Leamington. I've noticed that the levels are usually down at the beginning of the week and usually recover by the end of the week, ready for the next weekend.
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There's an early 1900s postcard of the trip boat here.
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It should be free. I was told, when we first moored there in about 1980, that the facility was installed by the LANT, not the marina.
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A lot higher! Long gone are the days when boaters lowered the water level in the basin to get under that bridge!
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The 1884 1:2,500 OS map doesn't show a bridge at the narrows. OS maps show the lock as "Swing Bridge Lock" up until the 1958 1:10,560 map. The maps can be seen at old-maps.co.uk I wonder if the narrows could have been a boat-gauging point, such as the one at Norton Junction.
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The swingbridge was No. 67... There is a photograph of it here.
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Yes, there's a clickable photo of one of them here. It's the third one down!
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They were planted, in the 1980s, by the Old Union Canal Society.
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The top pound has been re-watered and the pontoons are being craned out as I write! As seen on the Calcutt webcam.
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Yesterday's photo...
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Whatever it is, it paid a return visit, sometime in the last three days... There are more photos here.
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Further signs of progress!...
