archie57
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- and the fence is still the same today (- or was the last time I was along there)
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Simpson Davies?
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I've got a bit of the "Camborne" on my boat - the exhaust collar from when it had a PD2 in it!
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I believe it is this boat that ended up a house boat at Tardebigge and was sadly destroyed by fire many years ago
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Motor's cabin back appears painted back to front - I can only think of one Waterways boat I've seen like this.........
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John Henry Meese with wife and daughter Elizabeth on the Evenlode, motor Azalea I believe
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Cadburys pictures, Bournville and Knighton
archie57 replied to Stroudwater1's topic in History & Heritage
Severn and Canal carrying Co. -
- are you tempted Paul...........!
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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......