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Do bear in mind that after a lifetime of being in front of the camera, They know when it is rolling and the sound is on. It is impressive how they play the characters we all are/know to put over typical modern canal holidaying..

When one lock of a pair is closed for repair, CRT always close one of each of the other two pairs to stop boats jamming up in the pounds. Volunteer Lock Keepers were there bright and early this morning.

The cill on one of the pair of bottom locks has moved and despite a CRT army, it could not be repaired today so we are reduced to single lock only, causing the first queue of the season. It may take some time to put right.

"Around 1968 I started to make model narrow boats based on what I had seen and been on, this rapidly developed and once married my wife and I traded as the "Canal ware & model narrow boat company". We rapidly gained customers and the part time business started to do really well, we were supplying British Waterways at all their outlet shops and the museum. Gill's side grew but in 1977 I started to make serious large scale models for museums and private customers and changed the trading title to "Inland Waterways Models" (IWM)." And we still display your model of BADSEY in the café window.

That's the one. Thank you Hugh. Can you go back in your Tardis and get a photo of Morton Locks please

I think that a few months back, someone put a link on here to a university website showing historic maps. I can't find it in the search. Does anyone know what it was please?

Proposed to CRT as a fundraising idea when they first formed the partnerships to be administered on a regional basis. Would cost them nothing and they were to get 50p from each sale. It was turned down without a meeting.

When CRT was formed and looking for fundraising ideas, we devised a complete ready-to-go scheme for them with a special healthy recipe duck and swan food combined with a poster to suggest to folk they buy a bag of the CRT approved alternative to bread (for less than a loaf of bread). Unfortunately CRT turned down the proposal at the time.

Looks great and you did well on the price, and the size of them. Can't beat long slow cooking.

Less than a year before that was filmed, we took the boat to Oxford and moored opposite the boarded off redundant boatyard. There was none of the awful graffiti that they highlighted and Isis Lock was very pretty and well kept. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AREA IN SUCH A SHORT TIME?

Our National DM2 drives 72foot on rivers like its been set free from captivity. Can't speak for a RN though.

Taking the instruction literally and trying to translate into modern English, I am wondering if "Frying" (assume it means without fat or oil having wiped the pan clean) for FIVE minutes in a "tolerably" hot pan ................ could be a problem. Perhaps "tolerably hot" means, not very hot at all? If not, I am imagining the smell of burnt batter!

Good Grief Alan ---------- You mean, apart from the shred that is a photo on our wall of J.James steering the boat bearing the GU index number AND in his carrying days. Sorry - not getting it out of the frame to put it on here just to prove it (even if I knew how).

When I mentioned the word "Fleet" to the National Historic Ships Register I got the reply, 'No, not a fleet, possibly a Squadron' I was happy to be a Squadron Leader.

Old pic. It is now in GU livery with GUnumber

I just wanted the boat to look like it looked when Jack James had it. Plus I thought the survey and the letters were a waste of money. That is a lovely butty that you're towing. But where are its plates?

take my word for it, we have pics of Jack James steering Badsey in wartime GUCCC livery bearing the registered number and the G.U. index number PLUS Noel James steering it in BW colours bearing the same numbers but the latter is prefixed with B.W., just as it was when we bought it. The modern index number was not displayed at any of the above times.

Now that looks very fine. Sorry that I seem to have created multiple threads for this subject. Not sure how. Perhaps a moderator would combine them all together.

the traditional Grand Union index number that Badsey has carried for 79 years is a different 5 figure number to the one CRT require to be displayed.