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  • Birthday 07/07/1966

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    Frome, Somerset
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    Town Planner
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    Juno
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    Brassknocker Basin

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  1. As Matty said, and the closer you get to Froghall the better it gets In the 1960s BW offered to maintain and repair the canal as far as Hazlehurst locks on condition the canal society drop their campaign for restoration to Froghall - Ben Fradley, the then chairman of the canal society, is alleged to have replied "we are not being shown to the garden gate and then being barred from entering the garden"
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  6. Seconded - that is going to get knocked off even moving to the water point or the diesel berth. You won't be able to take it off if the fire is lit, and moving with it on is a hazard to other boaters as well as locksides, bridges etc. Sorry, but it needs to go!
  7. Thank you! I'd forgotten that 65 was at Burnley not Liverpool (which I think was 68?) and didn't know there had been satellite sites
  8. I haven't checked but I assume a cutting on this scale is one of the 1830s improvements? Could the original route be reopened instead? 😉🙃
  9. Another Liverpool 65 one - not entirely appropriate....
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  11. Thanks Pluto - I'm sure if I read one of your books I'll get the answer, but what was the original configuration on the Leigh Branch? Bradshaw 1904 has one at Poolstick, two at Dover and one at Plank Lane, which is what is shown on my plan, you suggest that by the 1920s this had changed (I don't have a later Bradshaw to hand to check) but what did it start as? The map is headed for a place in my personal library btw
  12. Very informative - if only all videos could be that concise! Thanks for that - I realise it's not you that said it. Does the author really think that a cutting should be reopened in a state where it is predictable that it will slide down on a passing boater? IF we were talking about coal to keep the lights on in Coventry then that risk might just about have been acceptable in the 1930s, but leisure boaters? Now?
  13. Is that guy casually leaning on the prop shaft? 😳
  14. Been a while since I posted one of these... Found amongst MtE's books, I've posted similar but not identical maps before, they were flat sheets, this is bound, and there are significant detail differences too. The map gives no info on who published it - there is a credit to the "Canal Office, Liverpool" but no reference to whether this was the L&L co or the BTC. The map shows four locks on the Leigh Branch which must date it to some extent. I find the long profile including the reservoirs fascinating. Anyone got any thoughts on date and provenance?
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