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On this day in 2006 Stockton Top Marina GU Braunston-Birmingham Compare 28Jan1995 27Dec1996 16Aug2005 (#2) 17Nov2005 18Nov2005 29Jan2006 21Apr2006 26Oct2007 5Feb2009

This afternoon 2024 Southampton Water. And a bird...

This afternoon 2024 (&1)(&2) Hythe Bridge Arm (Oxford) Compare 25Feb2001 17Sep2005 (#2) 28Feb2014 23May2015 24Feb2020 27Feb2022 (&3)(&4)(&6) Isis Lock Oxford, SOxfordC, Compare 14Feb1988 28Feb2014 24Feb2020 27Feb2022 (&5) Railway Swing Bridge Castle Mill Stream Sheepwash Channel Compare 6Jun1990 25Feb2001 28Feb2014 27Feb2022

This afternoon 2024 River Cherwell Oxford

This evening 2024 Southampton cruise terminal. AIDANOVA arrived 0415 this morning. 337meters. 6600 passengers ... Saves on streetlighting alongside ... Compare 2Mar2019 17Feb2023 Picture @ElaineMary

On this day in 2019 Embankment River Thames London. A Big Hole

On this day in 2009 (#1)(#2)(#3) Braunston Marina (#4)(#5) around Braunston Bottom Lock GU Compare 4Jul1971 14Nov1971 #Jul1977 19Aug1989 16Aug2005/16Aug2016 27Jun2008 12Aug2010 7Jul2011 7Dec2012 12Jul2015(bees) 8Jun2016 24Jun2016 25Jun2017

Today 2024 Cromarty Harbour Highlands, Scotland Picture by © JulianParen ================================================================ On this day in 2016 Southampton Water / River Test

(Less than a pint of) coffee in 1991 at UKREP in Brussels with a young floppy-haired Telegraph journalist with then-unconventional views on the then-EEC. He was called Boris ... He may have retired by now ...

On this day in 2007 GU/Oxford Braunston-Napton

On this day in 2020 River Lock Leeds A+C Compare 1Jan1979 13Jan2006 13Jan2007 17Jul2010 24Jul2012 27Jan2014 6Jun2014 19Dec2014 10Nov2015 14Oct2016 2Feb2018 8Mar2018 29Jan2021 and here

On this day in 2009 Braunston Marina and outside GUSouth Compare 5Nov1978 4Feb2001 2Feb2002 8Feb2004 6Feb2005 2Feb2006 (#2) 3Feb2006 4Feb2006 5Feb2006 31Jan2007 1Feb2007 2Feb2007 4Feb2007 8Feb2007 1Feb2008 (#2) 8Nov2008 5Feb2009 7Feb2009 8Feb2009 (#2) (#3) 19Mar2011 22Jun2018 23Jun2018 23Jul2022 9Sep2022 31Oct2022 28Nov2022 5Feb2023 6Feb2023 6May2023 25Jun2023

On this day in 2009 Napton Junction (Wigrams Turn) Compare 24Mar1971/31Mar2005 10Jun1988 8June1990 29Jul1994 27Oct1994 16Aug2005 22Sep2005 29Jan2006 17Mar2006 3Nov2006 1Feb2007 9Nov2008 22Jun2018 ##2019 25Oct2020

On this day in 2008 Richmond Footbridge/Barrier and Lock RThames Compare 10Jun1979 5Feb2008 (#2) (#3) 29Sep2009 25Sep2013

On this day in 2022 Waddington's Yard at Swinton Junction Dearn and Dove / S&SYN

On this day in 2009 around Rickmansworth GUSouth

On this day in 2007 Braunston Turn Northern Oxford / GU Reversing around the triangle Compare 12Jul1974 28May1975 11Jun1988 28Jul1994 2May1997 4Aug2003 11Aug2005 14Nov2005 16Nov2005 25Nov2005 26Nov2005 17Dec2005 2Nov2006 1Feb2007 (#2) 7Nov2008 8Nov2008 9Nov2008 5Feb2009 17May2010 22Jun2018 4Mar2023 6May2023 26Jun2023

On this day in 2023 Yorkshire Derwent/tidal River Ouse Barmby Barrage Compare 6May2002 4Feb2023

Bristol Uni induction talk, along the lines of: if that essay-deadline is too-far past, and you find yourself on Clifton Suspension Bridge at midnight, remember that the mud below is very soft, and you might find yourself in severe pain from broken limbs, up to your armpits in gooey mud, unreachable from the bank even if anyone knew you were there, and waiting five hours for the incoming tide: reading the signs on the bridge and ringing the Student Samaritans line is a better option. ...

On this day in 2009 Cowley Lock No 89 GUSouth Compare 23Jan2008 3Feb2009 (#2) 13May2016

This morning 2024 Tinsley Marina Tinsley Lock3 and footbridge Compare 31May1991 25Oct 2009 (#2) 14Apr2010 13Nov2012 13Dec2012 4Jan2013 19Dec2013 10May2014 14Feb2016 12Oct2016 (#2) 20Oct2016 8Dec2020 (#2) (#3) 26Feb2021 (#2) 14May2021

Twoday ... River Ver in the distance - and Verulamium Park. From St Albans Abbey photo taken on 02/02/2002 (sadly it would have been dark at twenty-past-eight in the evening) =============================================================== On this day in 2007 Braunston Marina GUSouth. Compare 5Nov1978 4Feb2001 2Feb2002 8Feb2004 6Feb2005 2Feb2006 (#2) 3Feb2006 4Feb2006 5Feb2006 31Jan2007 1Feb2007 4Feb2007 8Feb2007 1Feb2008 (#2) 8Nov2008 5Feb2009 7Feb2009 8Feb2009 (#2) (#3) 19Mar2011 22Jun2018 23Jun2018 23Jul2022 9Sep2022 31Oct2022 28Nov2022 5Feb2023 6Feb2023 6May2023 25Jun2023

... especially Weetabix-eating scroats ...

Today 2024 Thames & Severn Canal (#1) Bakers Mill Upper Lock beyond the bridge. (#2) between Bakers Mill and Puck Mill, below Frampton Mansell, Gloucestershire (#3) Milestone, Chalford, Gloucestershire Pictures (#2) (#3) by © JICheetham

Yes, the Commons Second Reading debate (19 March 1970 in Hansard) is informative, as to what the act was trying to achieve See Here The Minister (7.45pm) mentions that "The Transport Act, 1962, empowers the board to make charges ... subject to such terms and conditions at it thinks fit. ... the board operates a licensing scheme for pleasure craft on its artificial waterways. On the river waterways, in the absence of such a scheme, the board finds it impracticable to charge ... unless such owners or users navigate their craft through locks controlled by the board. Boat owners using only the considerable stretches of river between the locks may do so without making any payment ....