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Currently updating the South Wales canals, just done the Swansea canal, Neath & Tennant canals next.
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1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:
Have they got "Shearwater " from scrawled handwriting on the back of the photo? If so could it be Stainforth? Or a place starting with S and around 10 letters long?
Certainly plausible, I've never heard of the Shearwater Canal
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27 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:
In my case these are numbered upwards from v0 (the first draft) and have reached v7 before the client sees them. The first version the client sees is "draft final" or "final"
It's similar with the drawings that I do at work, letter issues are provisional & I can go through quite a few lettesr before it gets to issue 1 released for construction & even then it still changes.
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Watch out for the wasps as well, camping there one year they invaded as soon as the tent was opened in the morning, Scottish friends jokingly said their wasps attacked in squadrons.
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Don't let the weather put you off, Castle Urquhart in the rain, the spray caused by the heavy rain on the Loch made the rainbow.
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1 hour ago, carole tandey said:
Hi we have a small boat on a canal and there's a big problem with weeds all along the canal. The canal is owned by a trust so I was asking if anyone knew of a local weed cutter company which hired out weed cutting boats or sold them. Thsnkyou.
What is the canal?
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There's nothing at all wrong with that song by Smokie, but the audience is suspect, and you can thank Chubby Brown for that.
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The Beeb have called them bargees as well.
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A long time since I did the Caldon, the boat I'd hired I didn't trust going through Froghall tunnel so mored up by the works and walked.
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10 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
My argument with it was the tone of the commentary. The talking heads were mostly ok, even the Cunk lady, but the main bloke and script was dreadful - patronising in that "this is jolly good fun, isn't it?" way of a 1950s government information film, or one of those Disney wildlife things they used to show in schools. As if, because he was talking to stupid, ignorant people, he'd be pretending to share the joke that this wasn't really serious, now, was it?
The error is thinking people don't want a bit of depth, a bit of knowledge, the sense that these canals actually mattered to people - both those earning their living back in the day and those renovating or using it now.
And nine year olds being used to light the dynamite fuses because they could run faster than grown men, that's really funny, isn't it? That's a real joke. I wonder how many died. That was when I felt it had gone beyone the pale. A serious point could and should have been made, but no, it was just a laugh a minute, building canals, and everyone was having a damn good time. There was the bit about some people losing all their money in the bubble while a few made a fortune, and that being jolly good, too. So much for economics.
I thought it was appalling. Nice pictures, though.
I had heard qouted from historians that they knew building of the Caledonian canal was too late for it's original purpose but it was continued to keep the workforce going.
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They will be making a mess of railways next week
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7 minutes ago, IanD said:
For a program aimed at Joe Public not canal nerds, I didn't think it was too bad at all...
Yes definately for the public not for nerds, the Ellesmere (Langollen) canal history was a tad off as well.
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We seem to have a new canal engineer though, anyone else heard of John Brindley, maybe James twin?
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This is perhaps one for @Pluto
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2 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:
I understand that the modern engineering drawing conventions that we use today, were first devised by the French, and were considered to be so much better than previous practice that they were originally classified as a State Secret.
For a while I had in my possession the drawings for Watford locks, they where absolute works of art with shadows shown, and the grain in the wood.
Had to give them back to BW in the end though.
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2 hours ago, Momac said:
Maybe a society that has overseen the construction of locks i recent years could help , in return for a suitable donation.
http://www.granthamcanal.org/gchi-blog11318/
Also the Wey & Arun canal trust have built locks recently
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The narrows of that lock are still there, maybe an inspecion on the ground is required.
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No trouble with bikes it your wheelchair is like this.
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32 minutes ago, IanM said:
It's not the River Stroud by the way, it's the River Frome. It was once called the Stroudwater but not for many years (probably since the Stroudwater Navigation was built).
Yes and around there was also the Cambridge canal, & Kemmets canal, using parts of the river.
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2 hours ago, Morris said:
I agree with Mr Vagabond, they look like dead woodlice.
You wouldn't generally see them crawling about as they like to find dark damp places to hide. Not sure what they do there. Win at hide and seek maybe.
Do you run the tap a bit first before filling the jar?
Look a bit big for woodlouse (cheesehogs)
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Watched a recent episode of Trucking Hell where one of Crouchs rescue rigs was used to tow a boat off the river bank were it had been stranded by flooding.
Two guys in a boat I presume RCR took the tow cable across the river.
It worked.
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On 13/02/2024 at 14:26, Heartland said:
Staying with the Coventry Canal
Where and what is this location
Still no one got any ideas on this one, I've been looking over RAF aerial photos along the Coventry canal and haven't found it yet?
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These are Nissen huts, made with corrugated steel sheets, & nissen is spelt with an E, Nissan is a car manufacturer.
Drawing isn't very clear but this is a Handcraft Hut.
I may have a better copy in my collection of Air Ministry drawings.
As they are handcraft, it points to that site possibly being a miltary depot of some kind
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The huts have also been confirmed as WW2 Handcraft huts, they where made from corrugated asbestos.
You can't see any of these structures on the Britain From Above photos of the Edgewick Works.
Google Earth Canal & River Map. (Canalmaponline)
in History & Heritage
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A great map find when doing the Glamorgamshire canal,there's 16 of these.
@Heartland @Pluto @magpie patrick