Tim Lewis
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24 minutes ago, Tonka said:
Is it a group ?
It’s a page, and a very interesting one
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On 30/11/2023 at 08:04, magnetman said:
Do you know where this is? Its a great photo.
The little mess room cabin is interesting.
Not sure whwere the photo taken, looks a bit like the surrey canal. Looks like the boat is Callisto:
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21 hours ago, David Schweizer said:
Does anyone have list of the narrowboats marshalled as a Fire Service Boat in WW11? I have always understood that Pisces operated as one in London (or possibly in Birmingham), but I have never found any photographic or documentary evidence.
This article states that Callisto was used as a fire boat
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On 07/08/2023 at 20:03, sueb said:
Strange! My father spent the war on fire boats on the Thames, including the Massy Shaw, and never mentioned narrow boats being used.
Found this picture of a fire narrowboat in London!
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6 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
Not sure if @MartynG’s comment was made in reference to that. I suspect not.It can be argued that CRT is funded to enable replacement gates in timber rather than steel.
I guess we could have steel gates if CRT was funded totally through boating revenues.
Where locks and other canal structures are listed Historic England will be interested in any works carried out to them.Many years ago BW replaced lock gates on the Hanwell flight which is a scheduled monument without top gate paddles which were in situ when it was listed. This caused a major ruction with IWA etc and resulted in BW having to revise their procedures in dealing with listed structures
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4 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:
I think they have a role because CRT takes funding from the public purse.As I understand things it is their requirement that gates are replaced in timber.
Any statutory matters are now administered by Historic England. English Heritage who now just look after certain historic buildings were spun off as a charity like CRT, several years ago,
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3 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:
She looked pretty acceptable to us last year
It's changed a bit since then!
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23 hours ago, magnetman said:
Didn't the CRT recently change that bit to pre booked visitor moorings ?
Still residential opposite but I think the towing path side might have been cleared at least for a few moorings.
no, you are referring to the view West from Westbourne Terrace Road bridge. This photo is looking east from Warwick Avenue Bridge towards the tunnel, now lined both sides by permanent moorings. -
On 04/11/2023 at 08:46, Tim Lewis said:
The ‘lorry’ was a Volvo BM ADT (Articulated Dump Truck). The BM stands for Bolinder-Munktell so you could say that you went through in a trad engined vehicle 😂
Just found a picture of it:
10165E to 101667E are taken on the Chelmer and Blackwater navigation
101656E to 101667E are of the Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation
101656E 666 and 667 is Springfileld lock and basin
101659E is Beeliegh Lock and weir
101660E & 661is Paper Mill Lock
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59 minutes ago, David Mack said:According to Wikipedia the Brindley tunnel closed in 1914, so if the photo is 1920-25, why is the boat heading that way?
Perhaps it’s having to moor up whilst the emergency boat waits days to have its rudder fixed?
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CAn you see the person hanging onto the rope on the lift bridge we did yesterday 😀
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A soggy days FBW cruise to Westminster yesterday
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For sale, the cottage that is!: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141471929#/?channel=RES_BUY
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Orgasmic property for beer, canal and steam train enthusiasts:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/141471929#/?channel=RES_BUY
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
Anyone know what happened to ARGUS? It was recently advertised by CBS (S8) with £5k as a "price tag" but went for much more than that apparently. Hopefully that one stays as a butty.
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On 08/11/2023 at 19:09, The Black Jack said:
What a price! Even when you have had your shiny new incinerating toilet up and running it must cost the Earth to run on LPG. I'm not sure Greta would approve.
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2 hours ago, magnetman said:
Unusual for a lock side to have larssen piles.
Its not somewhere I have been but I think it could be Lee or Stort somewhere.
ISTR that the Warwickshire Avon locks were sheet piled
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On 06/11/2023 at 17:53, Tim Lewis said:
From Wikipedia:
interestingly in the last few years some of the weirs on the old lock chambers have been adapted with ‘sawtooth’ overflows to allow a greater flow of water over them.[2]
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On 07/11/2023 at 16:16, Mike Todd said:
Anyone posted a drone video of site?
From Facebook
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From Wikipedia:
‘All the locks were built with duplicate chambers to facilitate the heavy barge traffic. With the demise of commercial traffic in the early 1970s, at the end of 1973, the British Waterways Boardembarked on a three-year programme to convert one chamber at each lock into an overflow weir to facilitate unmanned use by pleasure craft without the risk of serious flooding due to incorrect use of the paddles’
interestingly in the last few years some of the weirs on the old lock chambers have been adapted with ‘sawtooth’ overflows to allow a greater flow of water over them.[2]
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5000 miles according to the IWA:
https://www.waterways.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IWA_directory_inland_waterways_010521a.pdf
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17 hours ago, Tacet said:
1984 sounds right. I had a chance to look at the work in progress which was most interesting. A site tipper lorry took us to the mid section of the tunnel in its dump box, which was aptly named as it reversed into the tunnel at a terrifying speed.
The ‘lorry’ was a Volvo BM ADT (Articulated Dump Truck). The BM stands for Bolinder-Munktell so you could say that you went through in a trad engined vehicle 😂
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On 01/11/2023 at 13:25, 1st ade said:
It's taken a while, but the next 1,055 scanned slides are here https://www.bagpuss-and-baxter.org.uk/zenphoto/Imported/Import-No-2-November-2023/ (and there are a few thousand more in the post for scanning)
As before, comments more than welcome, whether detailed or not; date, location and other observations will all be gratefully received! Reply here (including the image reference) or on my website.
Thanks in advance
101216E and 101217E are from the 1983 reconstruction of the central 3rd of Blisworth Tunnel the closure of which formed part of the 1980's tunnels crisis which almost cut the system into two!
I was working for the main contractor, Mowlem, at the time, Welham Plant was their plant hire subsidiary, spent many hours there getting my compant cars fixed!
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