Dorlan

Umbriel being raised in August 2005...

BBC Report with video

Thomas Monk, a boat owner in London, supposedly designed the first living cabin, which the traditional narrowboat cabin was then based on.

If I remember correctly, it is an updated Oxford Canal Bridge, as it was moved to Dundas from Banbury! It was Bridge 162. It was moved when the A422, Hennet Way was built across the canal. I think it's similar to the aluminium lift bridge (Br. 205 - Mill Lift Bridge) at Lower Heyford.

From the government's Intellectual Property Office's website...Copyright Alternatively, there's Copyleft!

There were two at, one time... Stratford bollards

I've found that housecoal burns the best on our back cabin range and have had the same 'experiences' in using it. I accidently discovered a way of getting rid of the tar, I left the damper open too long one day, when lighting the fire, and set fire to the tar lining the flue pipe! Apart from completely covering the marina with a thick, black smoke-screen there were no untoward effects. I just shut the damper and the sizzling in the fluepipe and the smoke died down almost straight away!I still burn housecoal, but often mix it with phurnacite or preferably, small anthracite nuts.

It's Calcutt, the majority of the moorings are on standard side by side pontoons.

Almost the best of both worlds - a bank-side mooring inside a marina!

There are some photos on this fotopic site... Moon, Jupiter and Venus

From the report on Waterscape.... I've seen report cards that can be filled in and posted to BW.

We were stopped at Cosgrove in the 1998 floods. The lock gates were chained up, with all paddles opened at both ends, as well as all the overflow paddles on the bank. That stopped the upper pound, at Cosgrove, from overtopping the banks and presumably flooding the lower end of the village, but at the SB end of the pound the level had been well over the top. Some boats were left either high and dry or sunk!

I meant 1851, I got it confused with the newspaper date!

Probably John Wiggerham. The 1851 census lists... in Aston Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace John WIGGERHAM Head M 48 M Grocers Agent Napton-War in Coventry Name Relationship Mar Age Sex Occupation Birthplace William MERCER Head M 47 M Ribbon Manufacturer Coventry-WAR Harriett MERCER Wife M 45 F --- Napton-WAR Margaret MERCER Daur U 17 F --- Coventry-WAR Louisa MERCER Daur U 14 F --- Coventry-WAR Theresa WIGGERHAM MotL W 82 F --- --- (British Subject)-FRA Theresa WIGGERHAM SisL U 38 F --- Napton-WAR The Coventry Herald & Observer on 19/6/1857 reports the death of the elder Theresa... WIGGERHAM 17i at residence of son-in-law Mr W.H. MERCER at advanced age, Theresa Elizabeth relict of John Wiggerham, Napton on the Hill These are the only Wiggerhams, with Napton connections, recorded in the census, so it's more than likely that her late husband was the toll keeper. <edit> I just saw David's post. As he wrote, this is speculation rather than hard facts!

When we were held up there a few years ago, the BW bods said that the problem was usually silt building up behind the gate. As we were going up the canal in our 70' boat, they had us jump the queue so that we could use the weight of our boat to squeeze the remaining silt out, by forcing the gate fully open! It worked!

Somerton Deep Lock... http://flickr.com/photos/22218727@N02/2624673848/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wunderboy/289...57594360920220/

Yes, you can see part of it on the right-hand side of the photo.

1. Somerton Deep Lock 2. Oxford? 3. Wigrams Turn

It's definitely Bancroft Basin in Stratford.