Tim Lewis

Back in the mid 1970's I had a holiday job driving for a fixings company who supplied small batches of electroplated bolts and screws etc. I used to deliver the raw fixings to a small factory where Austin Court is where the plating process was carried out in what looked like chip fryers full of various nefarious liquids. The place had a horrible fug about it and I was always glad to leave there. That would be a very long train!

Swarkstone Lock Cottage: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/139033256?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

Hydrous for sake: https://www.apolloduck.co.uk/boat/narrow-boats-traditional-for-sale/711170?fbclid=IwAR0AleZejUESEL-f7fuXPMM8lWV-rF5aXBiMLIUBRiyWnnS0oQUS27-AeSI_aem_AYsvZvZWSpmm9rhi2dZi600a4W1inQeP9w9X6gL-xW4xERCBwHUT6OpeicCZ_KdU8o0

Had a lift out and welding carried out at P & S at Cassiobury a few years ago and couldn’t fault the service. Used them again last year on a charity trip boat I am involved in and had the same excellent service

he has sold his boat 🙁

There’s a seized Russian superyacht in there at the moment, not sure if it has a BSC 😂 https://news.sky.com/story/amp/ukraine-war-grant-shapps-orders-detention-of-russian-owned-superyacht-named-phi-in-canary-wharf-12577407

Looks like the Youtube channel has been taken down!

Perhaps the Waterways Chaplains can help? Waterways chaplains | Canal & River Trust (canalrivertrust.org.uk)

From the CRT archive web site: collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/bw58.10.4.2.2

Having spent an hour of mine and two other peoples time yesterday dismantling and re-erecting a Titan canopy on a widebream all I can say is that it involves an awful lot of zips 😞

The same view today , actually yesterday. I believe hat the distance between the two stations id the shortest in the UK at 125metres! By co-incidence I was boating through here yesterday, this is the current view, the curved building in the centre is the Canary Wharf Elizabeth line station:

Last year we bought a trip boat for the London Canal Museum. One of the things that we had to do before we bought it was to carry out a stability test which involved putting weights representing the maximum number of people along one edge and measuring the tilt. The requirement was for 75kg per person, we allowed for14 people I attach a couple of pictures of the test.

Thanks David I have since found a picture of mine from when I was working on the construction of the first phase of Canary Wharf in 1990 which shows the station as a two platform one, however, I would note that the first phase of the DLR did not include a station at Canary Wharf, it was built later once the development was under way. This was a real pain for us working on the wharf as we had to park up in Poplar then be bussed onto site. It was such an awful place to work that we were paid a 10% extra salary 'Docklands Allowance' to work there! Although the station wasn't built until later the driverless trains were still programmed to stop at the site of the future station I guess to save the cost of reprogramming the system once the station was built. This photo shows the Canary Wharf Station under construction with the West India Quay station by the Delta junction.

That is certainly the Docklands light railway, I reckon it is looking North from Canary Wharf to West India Quay Station but I thought that it was a four platform station from the start!

I can't see 100168E 😞 One of mine taken from the other direction in October 1988

100156E is the North Dock of the London West India Docks in the early days of the construction of the Canary Wharf office complex, Canary Wharf being on the right of the picture. The dock is now largely filled in with office blocks and the Canary Wharf Elizabeth Line station. The building centre left with the yellow trusses is the relocated Billingsgate fish market, soon to be relocated again to Dagenham!

If you can wait for the canal to be restored here’s a toll collectors house in the Somerset Coal Canal: https://www.tyningsbath.com/properties-for-sale/property/11617582-midford-road-midford-bath?fbclid=IwAR1fjUnNyOAAgR7g8pqBOt9qoYPlDr-L_UyM6ehBMIo8hBYCrU3BsJoEmCQ_aem_AQzCdDY78N-GyipR2vgnqmmrFocJpNM7iXlB-0_WDyb9v4-FiR1dgc74tWoj3KfZQ1s

London Underground trains use on 4 rails!

Lindy Fosters House, once a Hire Boat Base, Bridgewater Boats.

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