archie57
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Any connection to Sammy Lawton, latterly boating in the SE division, who came from northern parts, married an Atkins IIRC?
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If you look at the DVD you will see scenes in the trailer filmed at the Gauging lock at Buckby which don't appear in the film.....
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Part two does exist, just needs publishing...……!
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16 hours ago, MoominPapa said:
We've spent that last couple of days bumping down the Montgomery canal. Very pretty, very away-from-it-all and very quiet.
Walked from the limit of navigation at Gronwen to look at the extension work. Does anyone know why he channel is being rebuilt using concrete blocks over a sealing membrane? (photo below) "Geotextile" always seems to be referred to as a good thing, but it looks to me like contaminating the the soil with tons of non-biodegradable plastic. I guess there's a reason why clay puddle can't be used, but I'd like to know what it is.
The new winding hole is large enough to wind several narrowboats in formation, and if any small coasters get lost and end up there, the mooring rings should cope fine!
Final query. I understand that Graham Palmer lock is new, to drop the level over the march section where the ground has sunk due to drainage, but does it replace a previous lock elsewhere? The new level across the march extends past Rednal basin to the top lock at Aston, and there's much original stuff there with no sign of a level drop, so I guess it must.
MP
Why were you "Bumping" down the canal - was it short of water?
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1 hour ago, John Brightley said:
Here's Whitby and Pictor going round the turn single handed at Hawkesbury in 1980. Who it is steering I don't know though.
Looks like John Batten - the then owner- to me
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Great if you like trains!
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Weren't all the SUC gates from Ellesmere workshops.....
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Looks like George Wain with the "Rail", passing the old side bridge close to the "Jolly Colliers" which is now located close to the Coventry ring road. Longford power station in distance.
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This is both sides of the Coventry canal between Gipsy Lane bridge and the Griff arm. We'll be wondering what the attraction of the canals is when they are lined with developments and moored boats.
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/outline-plans-1500-jobs-business-16676921
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is this Caisey Bridge? - what does the team think?!
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It most likely is the "Birmingham" , I think he had the Camborne 1955/6 time.
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This is another one of Bob Grantham. I knew him well, a great character, liked his darts, a champion player within the BTW social competitions! This is one of the pictures he gave me at the time. He appeared as A (Arthur) Grantham on the fleet lists, but was Bob to his friends. He worked for Barlows as well, swopping between the two in the 1950s/60s. Not sure if this is the "Birmingham", he had the "Camborne" at one time
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1 hour ago, pete harrison said:
This is the usual internet / Wikipedia nonsense written by people who learn off either the internet or from a book. The Grand Union Canal Company had only one purpose built long distance carrying wide boat and that was PROGRESS, built by Bushell Brothers on the Wendover Arm in 1934. PROGRESS attended the opening of Hatton Locks on 30 October 1934, and although this boat was gauged at 75'0'' x 12'1½ it was soon deemed to be unsuccessful and was relegated to maintenance duties. As already stated PROGRESS is currently undergoing a rebuild.
The independent carrier Fellows, Morton and Clayton Ltd. built their carrying wide motor boat PIONEER at Uxbridge in late 1934 with a gauge of 71'8'' x 13'7¼'', but this boat was built for the papermill traffic on the lower Grand Union Canal and I have seen no evidence that it travelled through the new locks north of Napton - and it was sold off to another southern Grand Union Canal business in February 1936. By 1961 PIONEER had been sunk in the Yeading Tip arm and was later buried over.
I have always maintained that the modernised canal between Napton and Camp Hill is a narrow beam waterway with the benefit of wide locks, with my opinion being based on the narrow bridges or bridges with low arches that prevent easy passage - and I learned the hard way when operating a motor / butty pair, but I did listen to advise when it was available
ISTR having somewhere a newspaper cutting from the 1930s with a FMC wideboat in Leamington - but until I can locate it......
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24 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
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No, they are proper stones, crafted into shape and probably 200 years old.
being pedantic, aren't they bricks rather than stones...……
- and as for Coronation Street "Cobbles"...……!
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Further to this, here he is again, when boating......
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Probably the "Pipit" . Afraid he's no longer with us.
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Bert Wallington
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5 hours ago, cuthound said:
Will CRT be recovering the cost ofcrepairs from the builder? I certainly hope so.
I recall reading an article in Waterways World, probably in the 1980's of the wideboat Arthur getting stuck around Stockton, so there really is nothing new under the sun.
I believe the "Arthur" got no further than bridge 103, between Flecknoe and Shuckburgh
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7 hours ago, David Schweizer said:
Yes it was, or "Bo" as the boys used to call him - apparently shortened from "Bosun". Dennis Jewiss was a good friend of our captain, also a Dennis.
Did a camping trip with him and a group in 1973, by which time he'd finished with the "William" I seem to remember.
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37 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:
We often accompanied the William to IWA Rallies. In 1971 on the last day of the Northampton rally we received a message that the river was in flood, and we needed to make a swift escape. Here are a couple of photos of the William being coaxed under a sluice lock gate after we had helped them remove roof top equipment (including the water tank!!)
Was this in the days of Dennis Jewiss?
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9 hours ago, pete harrison said:
So, again if I am reading the records correctly. the boats you were with were unloading at Croxley on the same day that REDSHANK and ARA were loading at Gopsall Wharf - so you must have been on the way back empty when you passed REDSHANK and ARA tied at Braunston
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There was the LMS warehouse in Kidderminster - GW territory!
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I like the ariel photo, complete with Canal Co. offices , not much left beside the warehouses and (former) "Admiral Codrington"!
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One of the warehouses in Coventry basin used to carry the lettering "Grand Union Canal Warehouse" - it was changed to the present lettering perhaps 30 years ago
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