Lizzy J
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although I suspect that Stockport Council are more interested than Southport!
whoops, typing error, I was thinking about flower shows too! Fortunately I did read Stockport Councils website.
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As someone who has recently looked into the planning issues very close to this spot in Marple I know that it is also a Conservation Area.
Southport Council's Website has quite a bit of information about what they are likely to permit and I wouldn't imagine this plan would fit in with their ideas. They are, quite rightly very keen on their important canal heritage in Marple and have a very active local society.
Also as someone with a boat moored on the Macclesfield, it will be long way to facilities in several directions without Marple yard and may put a number of people off exploring this lovely bit of the canal system.
Liz
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Thats cracking isnt it.
- Full marks for the matchin photo of lock 18 too!
Ah......just realised as I started watching this, I saw it yesterday! My parents bought us several DVD's for Christmas and this is included on one of them. We sat and watched it with a hope that Water Vole would appear, she didn't but the interiors of the other boats were very familiar to them. Fascinating stuff.
Liz
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Could it be in the Lapworth flight on the Northern Stratford ?
Bingo !
Lock 18 at Lapworth on the Stratford.
The prominent telegraph pole in both pictures make it highly likely it's the same location, I think - what do you reckon ?
Alan
I think you are right, I was thinking along those lines as there are not that many lock 18's in the right area but I couldn't find a recent picture to compare.
Many thanks
Liz
Ps. re Health and Safety, I thought I spotted a small squarish bollard in the other picture!
It's Hatton top lock with the lock keeper's cottage in the background. There's an awful lot more trees there now.Richard
Many thanks for confirming that, it means they got a lot further than I imagined.
Now I have traced the route I can take them back to over it.
Regards
Liz
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Any chance of me copying your pics to my site in the section about early hire boats please?
Yes, that is fine, glad to be able to contribute to the heritage archive at last!
Liz
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At last I have a couple of photo's. They are digital photographs of a slide at the moment so not perfect.
Can anyone identify the places in these two? I am trying to pin the route down now. The lock in the second picture has '18' on the balance beam
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Liz
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Lizzie,
This picture from Matt ("Sickle")'s site may be of interest.....
Alan
That is great and also the link on Pluto's post to the old brochure.
My parents will be fascinated, the more I have pressed them the more interested in what has happened to the boat they have become.
As soon as I see them and am able to convert the slides they have borrowed to digital I will post some.
Cheers
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Finally got a bit more information. The trip was in 1963 and my parents didn't navigate into Stratford, it hadn't been 'cleaned out', they got a train from somewhere adjacent!
The boat however was a BW one and called 'Water Vole' and definately went from Gas street basin. As fare as I can tell, mainly from previous threads on this forum, Water Vole was/is Kelso and was cut down by BW in the late 1950's.
There are about 15 pictures on slides which when I get to see them (they are on loan) I will hopefully scan and see if there are any identifying features of both the canals and the boat.
Regards
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Hi, could some one tell us the rules for a cc to get to see a doc, could we just walk in to a surgery and ask to see one?, thanks ,graycat
See my post from last October on the rules regarding this.
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Battery !?!
Yours has a battery !?!
I dream of having a battery, rather than that "lovely" piezo-electric 'clicky' igniter!
Ours is the DH51 model (no longer made), wheras I believe current ones are DH61.
I don't know how much they differ ?
Alan
We have one with a 'piezo' thingy which I always have great difficulty in using.(It doesn't seem to work half the time) I suspect the model may be the same, it certainly isn't new.
We have boated in winter quite a bit and know the water in the tank is often very cold but have never had a problem with the Morco heating the water. It is however rather temperamental and often requires a shout from the shower to turn it up or down. It has a habit of lurching from hot to cold for no apparent reason.
Not that this post will help you but I do sympathise!
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Thanks,
I have a default to only include UK pages so hadn't found it.
Regards
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Your link was direct to the photograph, can you give me a clue as to how you found the item on ebay?
'old postcards' comes up with 11,000 items and despite various search words I haven't been able to find it
Cheers
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Thanks for the confirmation that I do need the rope.
I have taken it back to bare metal in the grove and was assured that the rope I bought this time was correct! I had read of people removing the core of the rope before but wasn't sure how to do this or why it should be neccessary.
It seems ridiculous that in a commonly fitted stove there is not a rope which fits it readily available.
Regards
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We inherited a squirrel stove which generally is very efficient and does the job. Being safety minded I wanted to make sure that the seals were all OK. Last year I bought some fire rope and after carefully scraping out the grooves around the door stuck it in, only to find it was impossible to shut the door.
This year I have bought a 6mm piece of fire rope and ditto the above. The door is now impossible to shut. I don't just mean difficult but even after SteveE has sat on the floor with his back against the cabin wall pushing it with his feet (it is securely fixed to the hearth) it still won't shut!
When said rope is removed it shuts fine, firmly and as I remember stoves on boats we have hired in the past.
We have come to the conclusion that perhaps rope around the door grove is not neccessary but is this correct? There is rope under the glass and this is no problem.
Advice please.
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The Swan pub at Marbury, two miles from Wrenbury is worth a walk, with a torch if at night. Half a mile down the lane from the lock. Great food.
In Llangollen itself we ate at a pub who's name I can't recall but it has a balcony built out over the river and is close to the main bridge. Food OK, great view and a massive restored working waterwheel to look at (you can only see it by going into the pub).
A trip on the steam train and a walk to Horseshoe falls is also worth it. You can then walk back down the towpath and visit an interesting Motor museum on the way.
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My parents are certain about Gas Street Basin.
They now think it may well have been British Waterways who hired them the boat. It would make sense as they would have had to find about about it on a national basis as they lived in Hull, so it wasn't local knowledge.
There are only two photo's in their well labelled photograph album and they are dated July 1962. Unfortunately they show more of the people and their fashion sense than the boat! It was however definately a narrowboat which my Dad recalls had top opening windows which let in lot of water when they went through locks, all of which leaked an awful lot. They do recall working a lot of locks.
They are going to try and contact the widow of the chap who travelled with them as she may have more 'photo's.
Dave: Yes it is our Glenfield at Salt, what do you remember of her from the 1960's? Apart from waterways history generally, tracing Glenfield's history is my other hobby at the moment. We know she was converted by Albert Brookes but I would like to know more about her earlier history.
Regards
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As Paul said the also operated cut about working boats, and later a type of steel boat that had all the design flair of the organisation that brought you Thurlwood Steel Lock and hydraulic paddle gear.
It was definately a narrowboat rather than a cruiser and my dad seems to think it had an engine room, so a converted working boat would seem most likely.
I know it wasn't as late as 1965 because they got married that year and went to Wales for their honeymoon. My mother was a teacher so one holidat a year was taken in July or August.
Regards
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Do any pictures survive of this 1962(-ish) trip? That might jog someones memories.
I am pressing them to dig some out, both my father and his friend who went with them were keen photographers at the time. I only recall seeing one picture in the past but am sure there must be more. I will keep you posted.
Regards
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Hi Liz
I was around Gas St in the mid 60's. The only hire boat I recall was "Lady Helen", operated by an acquaintance called Dick Lewin, tho I wouldn't have thought he was there in 62. Are you sure your folks went to Stratford? The southern Stratford wasn't reopened until 1964 (Iwas there), perhaps they went to Lapworth and picked up the Grand Union to Warwick?
Can any other greybeards add to this? Hire craft from Gas St in the early 60s? Perhaps it was an enterprising private boater?....
Cheers
Dave Moore
Yes, I did wonder about the date as I knew the official opening of the basin was in 1964. They do however clearly recall mooring near the Theatre and spending the evening there. They also recall that the other end of the basin seemed quite 'weedy' and having seen some 'photo's in the History of IWA book I can imagine. I am seeing them this weekend and hope to extract some more information and 'photo's.
Regards
Liz
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My parents, before they were married, in 1962 (they think) hired a boat with another couple for a weeks holiday. They picked it up in Gas Street basin and travelled to both Warwick and Stratford upon Avon.
I have only just realised that this was a relatively unusual thing to do back then and have been trying to jog their memories about what they saw. They were rather purturbed at Gas Street Basin when they arrived and remember some parts of the trip as being full of hazards, very shallow bits, overhanging cables etc. We are also hoping to dig some photographs out as both my dad and his friend were keen photographers at the time.
Does anyone know who the hire boat company was likely to have been?
Many Thanks
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I think its axes stern on the bank there at Stone, aka REBEKAH after Roger Fullers daughter.
This one.. I did take a picture of.
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I was interested to note that the Alan Faulkner "Barlows" publication, which covers the Barlows fleet through to Blue Line days notes that CAPELLA, ABOYNE & TOUCAN were purchased from BW by Blue Line as planned replacements of firstly BELMONT, but then RAYMOND and LUCY.
The remains of the stern end of Toucan appear to be on the bank at a Wharf on the Trent and Mersey close to Weston-uopn Trent. I thought I had taken a photograph but I can't find it, so I will try next time we are passing which should be shortly.There are quite a few other interesting boats there including what looks like several 'restoration' projects down the short arm. I understood that this was Malcolm Braines place but am not sure if this is correct.
Liz
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The unpredictability of canal boating I'm afraid (and perversely one of its charms).
We gave up trying to meet canal deadlines a long time ago.
We appreciate that and we have worked around several stoppages already. Just a shame as we will now be stuck until next March. Oh well, that's life!
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We have just been a couple of miles along the Trent and Mersey today and at Hoo Mill Lock there was a BW notice advising that Yard Lock at Stone was closed due to collapse of the upper chamber.
Have just checked on Waterscape and it is posted as closed until further notice for investigation.
Bu**er, out final arrival at our mooring after taking six months to bring her home may not now happen at New Year as planned!
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Our boat Glenfield is half of what was or had been a spoon dredger when she was raised from the Wyrley and Essington Canal in the early 1960's and towed to the Bumblehole yard for conversion/restoration.
We believe she is an 1880's Bantock Mk1 and she has a rivited iron hull but nolonger has the elm bottom she had when recovered.
I have been unable to trace any history revious to the 1960's although I keep trying. I don't have a name or any identifying BCN number unfortunately.