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4 hours ago, IanD said:
...and excellent coffee and tea, and the best homemade baked beans I've ever eaten -- great for breakfast on their sourdough toast 😉
Oh tempora, o mores!
Back in the day when I was growing up haute cuisine in Slaithwaite was a pork pie from Walker Garside's (butchers) and as for the beer, a desert. The Swan at Crimble (Wilson's) was about the best bet in Slaithwaite. The Tetley's in The Railway at Marsden or the Wills' at Cop Hill were worth the schlep but otherwise Bass Charrington pretty much ruled in the Colne Valley.
You'll be telling me the Globe is being turned into yuppie flats next.....oh, hang on.
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A draw knife is your man. Though having just looked at prices I'm locking mine up.
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11 hours ago, David Mack said:
I have also seen a similar type made of welded steel, using diamond chequer plate for the tread.
10 hours ago, Rob-M said:Like this one on Scorpio.
Second point of order m'lud: no welder need have their tiny & easily confused brain troubled during the manufacture & fitting of that particular step.😊
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If you do go and take a look at it try walking down the gunwhale from one end of the cabin to the other;. Then try doing it quickly.
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5 hours ago, BuckbyLocks said:
As opposed to the motor with the missing engine hole roof which is Linda/Victoria, just before we bought it! Barrow, next door to John's Victoria, was soon to get a full length cabin.
So is there any truth in the story I was told that the steel used in the conversion came from the back door of the press shop at Longbridge? The last remnants I took off suggested this was a possibility.
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40 minutes ago, Athy said:
Which G.W.R. engines or stock carried this livery? I think of them as green or black engines and chocolate-and-cream coaches.
GWR coaching stock was painted crimson lake for a period early in the 20th century.
The preserved Great Western railmotor is painted in it.
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4 hours ago, David Schweizer said:
He didn't have to travel far to do that one, The Folly is his local.
Also keeping the air miles low tonight, featuring Napton Post Office
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I'm sitting eating my breakfast in Napton and am about to drive north to work (Brinklow); there are no roads closed which prevent this, nor have there been due to HS2.
There is one major road closure at the moment, the A425 the other side of Southam heading west to Leamington, which HS2 have just announced they wish to extend from 9 months to 20 months (and the original plan was to provide a temporary diversion so no closure would have taken place) which is a PITA if you are heading in that direction.
Rumours of the north being cut off from Napton are greatly exaggerated.?
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The green and yellow boat is the other half of Vela. I have done some work on this half for the current owners while it was at WFBCo. The boat is now on the Rochdale Canal (or possibly the Calder & Hebble - not sure of the exact location of the owners' house in relation to the junction twixt the two).
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12 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:
There was a WW April fool years ago on the Taunton inland canal, with a nice title picture of a steam train charging down the centre of the canal complete with bow wave.
This one? There are quite a few similar photos from the Somerset levels.
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2 hours ago, Ray T said:
This boat was built for its original owner at Warwickshire Fly Boat Co.
I believe it is styled on a South Sea Island Outrigger, the original intention was to float it along the GU and hence to the coast to have a mast, sails and outrigger fitted.This never happened and the boat was sold on.
Not quite Ray, we would never have built something so.........err, distinctive. The boat first appeared tied up on the offside near Nelson Lane bridge in Warwick. It was subsequently moved to WFBCo and the bulbous bits added to create more internal space so the owner could live on it.
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My money would be on someone who can't spell immersion (heater)
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Spoilsport ?
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8 hours ago, David Mack said:
New ones are available (at a price). 20A current rating apparently - presumably for ac.
https://www.broughtons.com/store/category/38/310/period-round-dolly-switches/
Cripes, I've been selling mine to people too cheaply.
One box turned up on ebay several years ago, when I won the auction the seller said they had four boxes, would I like the lot. It has turned out to be a very long term investment, not sure if I'm ahead yet.?
They are very sweet little switches; unlike the secondhand ones which turn up regularly the sprung contacts haven't got lazy so they have a very satisfying positve action.
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Of course you could use switches which swing both ways like these.
I might know someone who has a stock of brand new (in about 1950) old stock?
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6 hours ago, Athy said:
All these marvellous jargon words - slub, roving - which would have been in common use in the North until perhaps 50 years ago, but which few people now would understand.
There's a rather fine pub in Huddersfield called The Slubbers Arms. Gets a bit crowded before and after Town games.
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9 hours ago, Muddy Waters said:
I've never seen this picture before, where is it from?
Lifted from the CRT archive, I was actually looking for a different photo but came across this one. Looking at it again the headlamp on the motor boat to the left of the Edgware is also offset, and dropped.
To address the original question: I picked up a good condition headlamp on ebay a couple of weeks ago for £20 to replace the one which has self destructed after 37 years on the boat. I took it off to repaint it for possibly the first time to discover the difficulty of getting paint to stick to the holes which should be metal.
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10 hours ago, zenataomm said:
It was also a requirement for the lamp lens to be square/oblong.
Obviously nobody in the Grand Union Canal Company told their counterparts in the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company that.
Note also the offset headlamp on the Edgware which I don't think anyone has had the cojones to replicate yet, probably because it looks so odd.
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On 10/07/2020 at 08:02, BWM said:
Because at times it is inevitable that you would end up stepping onto it, when loaded it is likely these boats would be some distance from the towpath.
Ah, so in extremis then, we've all had to do that, if only you'd said that.
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8 hours ago, BWM said:
I'm fairly sure that the one on ours is a big chunk of ash, i'd personally be wary of hardwoods like Iroko as they are likely to become slippery.
Ash was used on top of the cants where you step onto the back deck on working narrow boats, i presume for its non slip quality.
7 hours ago, BWM said:Someone not taking the time to appreciate that i was describing the area of the boat in question rather than a preferred method of boarding!
Really? So what purpose does the "non slip quality" serve then?
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33 minutes ago, BWM said:
I'm fairly sure that the one on ours is a big chunk of ash, i'd personally be wary of hardwoods like Iroko as they are likely to become slippery.
Ash was used on top of the cants where you step onto the back deck on working narrow boats, i presume for its non slip quality.
No you don’t.
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@Graham_Robinson might be along in a bit if he can be bothered
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Bit of a rough shunt!
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Perhaps we should try another track, how about:
Not sure how many days. I thought it was getting better, but until today I haven't had a cough, now I do. This could get worse before it gets better.
I have original pressings of both of these, must be worth all of....25p?
Canal “loses out” in levelling up funding
in General Boating
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A fortune awaits you in Milton Keynes*..
I think you mean Penydarren!
*The location of the Network Rail timetable planning office.