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RockSodem

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  • Birthday 28/02/1972

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  1. Take a cart horse and put it straight on the end of a rope and it will rear-up, step back and more than likely fall in the cut. As mentioned, they are used to getting an immediate reaction, which you don't get from a boat. Training will, over not too long a time, teach them though. It's quite a sight seeing a seasoned horse, plant all four feet squarely, and lean forward, waiting for the boat to react before taking a first step.
  2. Warning Avoid the Croydon Cana! Unannounced closer. Spotted this morning.
  3. It looks like the wheels are slowly turning on this one again! http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/all-districts/18289/Hungerford-Marina--work-due-to.html
  4. Here's a little more detail http://yachts.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=426481
  5. This guy originally wanted to do bicycle sales and maintenance on the old John Pinkerton trip boat which he'd moved to Hungerford.. Amongst other things, I gather the CRT weren't exactly helpful, saying they'd need to charge him extra for cycle wear'n'tear on the towpath. Not heard much since and not been in the area for quite a while so i'd be interest to hear if he got it going or not. http://www.basingstoke-canal.org.uk/headline/old-john-pinkerton-finally-sold-moves/
  6. Maybe have a look at some of the pre-paid foreign travel debit cards?
  7. I only realised it was a satirical piece reading it the second time. Not a very good one and somewhat pointless I might add
  8. Hopefully it has a happier future than this one that featured back in 2007 http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/feb/02/beached-boat-a-triumph
  9. Admittedly this may not help, but if you happen to have a smart phone with location services on, fire up google maps, and select "my timeline". Rather scarily it knows exactly where you have been each day.
  10. I may be barking up the wrong tree, but aren't many of the locks on the system Grade II listed?, meaning they can't really change the mechanism of those locks?
  11. I did walk by tobacco dock with two very odd ships in the drained dock. I was lucky enough to have a snoop around the shopping arcade a couple of years back and know a little of its history. Amazingly it is still spotless though I do gather they're opening it up for the odd event. Great area just dripping in history.
  12. Thanks everyone. It does look like it's a new addition and follows the line of the old dock walls. The fact there are rightangles in it should probably have given it away to me! I've been in London on and off for 30 years and never walked it till now. So it may not be a canal but I would recommend walking it if you find yourself in the area
  13. Yesterday I got myself blissfully lost on a long walk from Greenwich to St Katherine's docks and found myself in Shadwell Basin. From there on it was following a strange canal type thing! Now excuse my ignorance, but I have found scant information what it is?! Is it an ornamental canal more recently made using the old dock walls (as the name suggests) or are bits of it actually canal? Any pointers/links would be greatly appreciated from the great minds on this forum. Standard Google results don't really say much although with the advent of steam ships a canal was employed in that area.
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