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If this is one of the Grand Union locks which have a large balk of timber at the front of the cill. It may have been knocked out of position.

Missing contact details for Kev Russell Middle Level Navigation Officer. The person to contact with any navigation problems he can be contacted via kevin.russell@middlelevel.gov.uk or 07725 134170.

If the bottom gate is still open, just back out the lock and than haul the boat in from the side. Which is what I normaly do if there is no bridge over the lock rather than use the ladder. I had to climb up the lock gate to get out, if it had been a metal lock gate I would have been stuck for sometime, little boat movement in winter on the Chester canal in the 1980's

On the tidal section of the Ouse between Denver and Salter Lode, keep away from the banksides which is deep sloping mud. If you stick here on a falling tide, you may not get off on the next tide due to the suction of the mud.

Not a lock to be in, if Mr helpful shuts the bottom gate after you enter. Walks off leaving you to sudden nctice that there is no ladder in the lock.

That will be Ditchford lock, the deepest on the Nene.

Quickly followed by CPO Pertwee's "Ev'rybody down!" as the Troutbridge hits something. Tim West would have been good as old ex sailor on the shoreside saying "it's contact sport you know" https://youtu.be/TVzmVLUbSos

Don't you mean the 'Navy lark'?

I did look at the Denford, but consider that in an emergency you could easily do yourself a injury with the flukes.

I have used a 25kg "CQR" Anchor with 10m of 16mm chain plus 30m 20mm rope fixed to to a mount in the well deck bulkhead. (48ft) The anchor,chain and rope are kept in a old garden planter under the side step, Only once have I had to use it in a emergency, that was when just after coming out of Salters lode lock, the engine stopped dead in gear (fender rope wrapped round shaft(someone elses)). Nipped up to the bows and lower the anchor over the side until the boat stopped midstream.

What he is stating is that he use a socket box blanking plate, in which he cut out the new holes for the usb fittings.

Give Uxbridge Boat Centre a call Uxbridge Boat Centre Ltd Telephone 01895 252019 Fax 01895 811035 Uxbridge Wharf Waterloo Road UXBRIDGE Middlesex UB8 2QX United Kingdom

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This may do the job https://www.bmstores.co.uk/products/maine-bathroom-storage-unit-355081 Move the base further up, you have some storge space as well

I have a couple of 500watt hobs brought from Maplins when they were going bust. I use them when hooked up to the shore supply, if the range is not lit. They do the job, only limit is the size of pans that can be used 18cm base. If using cast iron pans there is a risk with some high power hobs of cracking the iron due to the speed the pan heats up.

Charing Cross when first built in 1864, it did have a arched roof which was badly damaged by an engineering accident in 1905 and extensively rebuilt with a flat roof.

MIDDLE LEVEL COMMISSIONERS Notice ID: 11098861 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; The current closure to navigation of or through the belowmentioned waterway forming part of the Middle Level system will be extended to 4th March 2022. Marmont Priory Lock The extension to the current suspension of navigation is due to remedial repair work required to be carried out to the downstream lock gates. Other parts of the Middle Level Navigations, not the subject of the closures during these periods, will remain open. Should be above works be completed before the 4th March 2022, the lock will be re-opened. Dated this 8th day of February 2022. D THOMAS Chief Executive and Clerk Middle Level Offices 85 Whittlesey Road March PE15 0AH 01354 653232

Seen it happen myself at friends house overlooking the London end of the Grand Union. The 48hour mooring signs are forever being removed.

Back in 2011, a unexploded gunpower blasting charge dating back to 1884 was found in the rock face of the railway cutting between the station and the viaduct at Corfe Castle.

Had a the same sort of problem at my daughters new house. What I did was nip downs to Boone's Hardware on Poole High street brought a replacement brass nut and washer. Fitted it in place hand tight and than tighten using a opened ended ring spanner.

Dry powder can easly be hoover up, but you will need to clear the filter a few times. It's also be brushed up which I would do first to remove the bulk of the powder and just to use the hoover on the hard to reach bits and than just wipe to remove the remaining dust. I had to do this a few years ago when I had a fire in the kitchen at home, when a fault in overhead hob extractor ignited the filter sheet.

Free range or Farmed ?

Only part of a chain as in use of a brand name. The shops are owned by independent retailers who pay a fee for the use of name.