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Booking option is on the Canal and River Trust website
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In what used to be the Maintenance yard next to the warehouse. About 50 Yards from the old one. It was still fenced off on Saturday so presumably opened this morning
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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On 19/02/2022 at 18:42, cheshire~rose said:
When your doctor provides a prescription you can select the pharmacy you wish it to be dispensed at.
My doctors surgery does things using an app now and it is all electronic so, when I know I am going to need a prescription I plan to be somewhere with a handy pharmacy and select that one.
There have been occasional hiccups but if you end up in the wrong place you can call the original pharmacy and ask they to put it back on " the spine" - you get a number where the next pharmacy can take it off the spine to dispense it.
The one thing you are likely to need is your NHS number so make a note of it from an old prescription
Also beware of larger towns where they may have more than one branch of a pharmacy. I have ended up walking further than planned before now!
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
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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
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3 hours ago, Chris T said:
It seems to be broken more than it is operating. I don't recall this being a problem when it was a manual lift bridge, like the one next to it.
The problem is the owner of the land across the bridge is now taking very heavy vehicles across the bridge loaded with hardcore.
11 hours ago, Leemc said:Had notification today to say that bridge will be lifted at 1400 on Monday for any boat that wants to escape being trapped. It will only be open for short time so you need to be there at that time.
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
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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.
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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
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1 hour ago, Jerra said:
True. However, if you try to avoid every problem which might happen you wouldn't be boating.
I often hear comments similar to yours but as yet have never had anybody say "yes it happened to me". It seems to be people who think it might happen rather than a knowledge base of it has happened X number of times or RCR say its the Y most common call out.
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.
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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
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Screwfix do ones like this
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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.
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23 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:
I suspect it could be paid from your personal bank account but that would not make you the policy holder. As the owner of the vehicle your wife would have to be the policy holder.Husband / Wife is the only instance where you can take out insurance on a car you don't own
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12 minutes ago, haggis said:
Thank you! Have you made it back onto the Macc yet ? At least when you get there you are not too far from your mooring, even if you can't get there yet.
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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Me and our friend Peter ate in the Bridge the other week and enjoyed it. The chippy is very good, they were queuing out the door when I went there in early July. Hope you enjoy your trip. See you soon
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On 19/09/2022 at 23:10, blackrose said:
Ok yes point taken. Thanks. I'll replace the unequal T with a straight reducer.
This is exactly what I did when I removed my three-way fridge a good few years ago. Never had a problem with any BSS examiner I've used.
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Mike Carter is only in Northwich and is good
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4 hours ago, Victor Vectis said:
I'm guessing this is the James you are talking about: https://buskengland.wordpress.com/
(Scroll down quite a bit to the entry 'Spoil')
And isn't 'Spey' a wonderful boat!
Nice to see the blogger's pics of her tied up in Paddington Basin.
It's actually Tom that is writing that article, although he did go boating with James the other month
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We had no trouble travelling from the macclesfield canal to Bugsworth last weekend
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On 20/12/2021 at 12:54, agg221 said:
This is the bit which I find irritating. The Foxes are not the worst for this by a long way - their videos seem to be more about what they are doing than telling people the right way of doing it and I quite enjoy some of them, but there is one particular set of vlogs by another pair of 'waterways celebrities' where the message appears to be that anyone actually wanting to get somewhere is 'rushing' and 'doing it wrong', and that what I would regard as efficient progress is actually dangerous and rude. There is one particular video on the Caldon where they are incensed by the boat behind them which keeps catching them up at every lock. Given that they regard 4hrs of cruising and 6 locks as a hard day, I am not surprised they keep being caught up, but they regard the boat behind as at fault. The problem becomes when 300 of their 30,000 followers also get a boat, and assume that they are correct. Each to their own, but when someone whose sole experience comes from a Youtube Influencer starts telling you you're doing it wrong it gets very galling - see comment earlier today about 5hrs to get through Penkridge!
Alec
On 20/12/2021 at 10:53, doratheexplorer said:I'd concur that most of their avid watchers don't live on boats but think they might like to. The problem is that these vlogs present a pretty skewed idea of what liveaboard life is like and typically paint a fairly rose tinted picture. This makes more and more people jump on the bandwagon which causes a few unwanted consequences. It also creates an idea of the 'proper' way of doing things or the 'proper' equipment needed. I'm sure the Foxes' composting loo saga initial led to other following suit which then led to CRT's change of rules. Do the Foxes' feel and responsibility for this? Who knows? They changed their boat soon after to a foreign buyer who probably doesn't really understand the issue with the composting loo.
Exactly the points I was intending to mean when I said "true" boaters
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From personal experience talking to friends who know we are boaters, most of the people who watch their channel and look at what they do are not boaters or have any connection with canals. Personally I think at best, they are well intentioned but ignorant of the true way of life on boats
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The Bridgewater Canal. Notice to cruise.
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I meant it's one of the options on the booking page of the C&RT website