archie57
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funnily enough, my cross country running days took me past there - always at the rear of the pack needless to say - from Marple Hall?
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Ely?
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I rather think that the motor 2nd from R is the Tadworth
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Don't you start...!
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- and a brilliant team they were. Always friendly and helpful, and the canal around Braunston especially is testament to the quality of their work. At least when ex-boaters are in the dredging gang you know they are going to take out as much as possible, and not work to some figure worked out by a pen-pusher in an office. I used to be on the receiving end of some mickey-taking mind.....
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When I saw it at Hanwell yard it had a Petter PD4 in it
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Too big for the tippets, and you wouldn't use those without the topcloths.....
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They are the topcloths
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Sorry to hear this, he was the Petter expert.
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Dare I ask - how long is your boat...…?
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- and presumably it still fits Edgbaston tunnel, despite CRTs best efforts......
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Caldon Canal - Bridge 37 - Lock 12 - Hazelhurst Bottom Lock
archie57 replied to rupertbear's topic in Stoppages
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Have the residents of Wolverhampton stopped going to the loo...……
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Ceres?
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The PDs may have been unreliable in later Willow Wren days - Leslie Morton hated them - but properly maintained, as in BTW days, I'm told they performed ok. I had one for 27 years which, apart from a broken oil pipe, never let me down.
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I'm sure Pete can tell us when eg Arthur Goddard had the Callisto…….
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Is it related to the 4 cylinder one in this?.... http://www.kerrstuart4415.org.uk/historyrestoration.html
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The article in the latest HNBC newsletter prompted me to contact his nephew just before Christmas who gave me the news. I miss his interesting contributions to the Forum, I wish I'd made contact with him....
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I'm sorry to have to report that Alan died last March.
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Tamarinds for HP sauce
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Claytons boat at Cropredy - Albert Beechey perhaps?
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Ross at the time was owned by the late Bill Brookes, together with the Erebus.
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The site of the junction at Longford is where boats used to wind before going stern first up to the loading shutes 1/2 mile further on towards Coventry. Tight for a full length boat, you probable couldn't do it now because of the moored boats.
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This was the ex-boating Sammy Lawton, moved there from Denham lock
