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  1. I've been up and down the Severn and Avon a few times on my boat with a DM2 in. You can fly along. Join the Russell Newbery Register, the members have a wealth of knowledge. I'll be down on thew Avon this summer as their annual get together is at Evesham. Happy boating, and enjoy it
  2. My wife has met me in various places whilst I've been in the midlands. Travelling from Manchester. The line through Stoke down to Rugeley and Litchfield is handy. Huddlesford Junction, and the Plough Inn is only a twenty minute walk or a £6 Uber ride from Litchfield Trent Valley. Penkridge is handy if you are on the Staffs and works. last year I went down via the shroppie and we discovered that there is a frequent bus out to Brewood from Penkridge. She then helped me up the twenty one and got a train home from wolverhampton.
  3. Brewood is a good stop. I love the bridge inn and there is also the Swan for beer and the three stirrups do decent fairly cheap food
  4. I'd go clockwise and spend the night before Harecastle moored on the pound below the top lock at Kidsgrove, and spend the evening in the Blue Bell before doing the tunnel first thing and stopping at the Plume of Feathers the next night. Also I always find going down Audlem easier. Stone is a good stop for food, beer and shopping and an afternoon at Shugborough Hall is well worth the stop.
  5. I have used this, when I order a prescription the on line form asks for my preferred pharmacy. You enter the name and address of the one you wish to use and when the prescription is signed off by my doctor I get a text telling me and usually within two days the pharmacy messages me to say its ready for collection. I usus=ally use the ones in Tesco as they are open long hours and already have my phone number on file, and of course there is usually one in any major town I stop in. Its just a case of timing stops for the time I need a prescription. My doctor does two months at a time so its not too arduous. Just remember to alter the pharmacy each time or the previous one is remembered and that will be where it is issued to
  6. It's electrically operated as they beefed it up a bit the other year. There is a 3 Tonne weight limit on it but allegedly somebody has been taking heavier vehicles over it. It is the bearings on the top if the bascule that are damaged and this requires the balance weight removing I would presume which is why a large crane is required
  7. The problem is the owner of the land across the bridge is now taking very heavy vehicles across the bridge loaded with hardcore. I will be in the queue to get through on Monday. It does mean I'll be setting off for the summer a week earlier than I had planned, but that's no hardship
  8. Latest update is the lift bridge has failed again. One of the main bearings has collapsed and it will be shut until replaced. From Date: 27/07/2023 17:00 To Date: On-going Type: Navigation Closure Reason: Repair Is the towpath closed? No Please be advised navigation is closed at Bridge 24, Wood End Lift Bridge on the Peak Forest canal due to a failed bearing. Our team are currently arranging an onsite meeting with our specialist engineers and contractors and an update on this will be provided by Wednesday 2 August.
  9. We have usually stopped at the bottom of the locks at Body moor heath and gone for tea at the Dog & Doublet, got up early and boated to the bridge in the morning. The rides don't open until 10am or so. If you have already purchased tickets and have them on your phone you are straight in. Our two loved the place when they were younger, from Thomas Land to the bigger rides as they got older. If you have come from Fazeley Junction you will have to go to the bottom of the locks to wind
  10. I once got held up by a boat in the narrows at Marple Junction, he was just clearing something off his propellor. Turned out to be his rope which had been coiled over his tiller. He got the rope off and spent ages with a magnet trying to retrieve his tiller pin.
  11. We've also eaten at the White Bear and the Boars Head in Middlewich both of which were alright. The Italian on the main shopping street is very good
  12. We did this lasty summer. Decent moorings between Marple Bottom and Romiley. Just through the lift bridge at Ashton before the Junction. St moored at Stalybridge opposite tesco for a couple of nights, good shopping and real ale near by. At the Roaches lock below lock 16. In uppermill. and before the tunnel at Diggle. In addition we stopped for a week at Wool Road, just below the Diggle flight opposite the service block on the way back west. We had no trouble with the working of the locks and no trouble at any of the places we stopped.
  13. Husband / Wife is the only instance where you can take out insurance on a car you don't own
  14. Yes, we have, thanks for asking. We are just hoping they reopen Bosley at some point this year, but at last the boat is iwithin commuting distance now
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