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I bought a fair few acres of flood meadow (for wildlife) and entered into an overage for 20 years. There is zero chance of anyone ever getting permission so it was a benign clause really. The owner insisted on it or would not sell.

Walking On Water Sub-Lieutenant Alan Hogarth of the Royal Navy walking on the River Thames at Tower Bridge on polystyrene shoes which he constructed himself, London, UK, 18th May 1971. (Photo by D. Morrison/Daily Express/Getty Images)

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"Skipper' businessman Jack Hornsby, with his 17 year old daughter Stella sailing pillion, during a try out on the River Thames, London. It is an amphibious motor scooter fitted with two floats which are let down before entering the water. A paddle fixed to the back wheel, and it is steered by a rudder controlled by the handlebars 20th October 1965" (Photo by George Greenwell/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

Robert Bill, a resident near us (Alton/Farley, Staffs - through which the Caldon Uttoxeter Branch ran through) was quite an inventor and held patents for various things - this one being to do with building of canal boats. Our local historian Hazel Mills found these papers very recently.

It's a hot tub. 😃

No need - please don't worry. 🙂 This was it before the last winter under trees..... the algae and slime from the trees soo get a grip. Hence the two days with a scrubbing brush 😃

Thanks all, excellent advice. It's moored in the north Midlands as I left London years back. The photo's are 2 years old and shows it in a "as polished" state. It's still a good condition but needs some attention here and there. I flogged my pristine Rover P5 this year too for same reason - i.e. let someone get the use of it. I feel guily not having it used. My cruising partner, wife and first mate passed away too so it's taken the joy away a little.

Took me two days to clean it all off this week. Scrubbed up ok. 😀

Thanks for the reply. Not sure what an RCD is exactly - I bought it 11 or 12 years ago and it's got a plate on the back (is that the RCD) and I think a certificate in the file and current BSC.

Going to <99% sure> put my boat up for sale - managing a tranche of land does not allow time anymore for boating. I have no idea what it's worth and would appreciate a rough estimate before I prepare it for sale. Details 62 foot Roger Fuller Trad, with Gardners 2LW, 14 mm baseplate. Built 2006 - BSC till 2026. 4 sidehatches and two houdini hatches. Cocooned 6.5kW Panda Generator and all the usual appliances. Fit out is cherrywood. Any ideas please in price before I am in part a little informned when talking to broker.

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Letter from CaRT about 6 weeks ago. Just at the same time my annual mooring fees were due to the mooring co - a small friendly offside farm affair. "Dear Mark I am contacting you to inform you that these moorings are to be Terminated and I am unsure at this point whether the operator has informed you. This will mean that you will need to find alternative moorings. In the interim I can probably offer you Extended Stays along the Canal at a suitable location. Please let me know as soon as possible any issues that you may have so I can offer further support." Left me in a position where unsure to pay my new mooring fee due. Rang this Cart person - a mooring area manager who told me due to non payment from offside provider to CaRT, his moorings were to be no longer (affects 4 other boaters). Mooring provider provides bulk of evidence showing payments were made and admin at CaRT took money but did not reply to any correspondance over 18 months. Hence I again contacted CaRT to clarify if I was to be "evicted" or not as CaRT appear to have failed to keep up with events and payments made to them. I used her CaRT mobile, left messages and emailed a few times. No response from CaRT area mooring person. After a few weeks advised her I would escalate to R Parry if no response to me or the mooring providor. from CaRT; still no reply. Yesterday escalated to Parry. What a shambolic way to treat customers. I am refusing to find another mooring or move my boat until CaRT reply. Why would I? NB for what it's worth I have complete faith in the mooring co, it's owned and run by a very efficient husband and wife team who provide fantastic facilities and are highly professional.

Thanks for the info! I will try to get an image of the canal channel next to Lords Bridge and post next time I am there.

After getting a snippet from an 1802 map of the Uttoxeter Canal - the old course of the river Churnet on our farm appears to have formed a bit of the Uttoxter Canal. It's still in water. Have contacted the Uttoxeter Canal Trust to see if they want to preserve it/control vegetation. All the OS maps just refer to it as a pond.

From the Mike Ashworth Collection. "One of the more interesting marketing initiatives of the old West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive - marketing services as "Metro" - was the introduction in 1983 of regular canal 'bus' services run by barge. Initially run on a section of the Leeds - Liverpool Canal between Shipley and Bingley, two other routes on the Rochdale Canal between Todmorden and Hebden Bridge and between Mirfield and Brighouse on the Calder & Hebble Navigation were added the following year. I'm not sure when they ceased operation but I do recall this - the fixed 'bus stop' posts and flags placed on the towpath as 'stopping points' and seen here in the "Ten Years of Achievement" booklet the PTE issued in 1985"

Vogan's Mill, Mill Street, London SE1. From Facebook.

Have moved to a small village in North Midlands and found an England long gone from down South.

"Wonderful London" Jen Welly-Boot. 3 volumes. I also have "Wonderful Britain" - 4 volume series too.

Pinner can can seen 12.40 in. In early, shots of a FMC butty "Beaver" too. Mainly trains tho.

The Batchworth Locks are in yellow. Looks like gravel was taken directly out from the pits.