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Replaced during the last war I understand.....
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The bracket is for attaching the chain , used at one time for stopping the boat in locks . must have caused a lot of wear on the stumps!
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- but it wasn't really that good then........!
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My late friend Hannah Boyes, who was boating 1896 - 1953 on the Grand Junction and connected canals, always talked of a pair as being a Motor and boat........!
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Makes me think of Shipley lock on the Erewash.....
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Not a good idea to alter the A45 bridge leaving Braunston - being a blind bridge you need to be able to pass an oncoming boat there - which I've done many times.
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I didn't mean to suggest it was still a steamer! It was 1970 when I travelled with him from the bottom of Wolverhampton to Warwick via Norton Canes
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No - Mr Bush's boat was a composite (I'm guessing it still was then) FMC steamer on which I travelled on one occasion! Don't think it would do a chainsaw much good trying to cut up a wooden boat........!
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Yes, Definitely Ron and E lizabeth
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It did have a reservoir - Oldbury, near Mancetter - seems to have disappeared though.......
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.........and that still hasn't been sorted out - don't suppose it ever will be, meanwhile I'll continue to bump over it, even with the pound running weir........
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2 feet ?!!
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Perhaps they will just move what is in the canal to one side so boats can pass.....
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Doubt if they'll dredge the rubble out of the cut because it's probably now "contaminated" which is a good excuse to leave it there......
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All the sandstone coping was replaced when the canal basin development took place - so it's only 30ish years old - and that ridiculous swing bridge was installed, no doubt an architects whim, and doubtless at vast expense!
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....nor the Benbow ( ie Bath) once owned by the Tardebigge Boat Co......
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Canal charity brings forward Macclesfield Canal lock repairs
archie57 replied to Ray T's topic in Waterways News & Press
..... plus their previous inaction on sorting out the Coombes feeder...... -
I understand that Oldbury reservoir was a source of water for the Coventry canal - but it doesn't seem to exist anymore..........
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No. The turners boat was the ex-Seddons motor I believe, now no longer with us - although bits do survive on another boat.....
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The powers-that-be put in a concrete roadway some years ago, caused a lot of fuss at the time but they wouldn't be told, after all they are the experts, added to which the summit level was lowered.........
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It was installed, no doubt at vast expense, when the basin redevelopment took place. There was nothing there before
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I think you'll find that using the side ponds correctly wouldn't increase the speed of passage - I've used them myself in the past. What it needs is the centre paddles(removed a lifetime ago) would need reinstating........
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The Towpath i would think....
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You didn't show the Fulbourne and Hagley......
