Curtis Carter Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 Check my new Canal video this will cheer you up, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DandV Posted April 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 (edited) Dining Out Narrowboat style. On the river Cam. On a friends boat in 2009. On this trip Val declared. "I could live this life" and was promptly challenged "Well why don,t you?" Little did any of us know that 4years later we were, and on the same boat. Edited April 9, 2020 by DandV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DandV Posted April 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 More dining out photos including one at a roadside cafe complete with our boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Vectis Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 11 hours ago, DandV said: A very nice blue narrowboat third back on the left. St Pancras Cruising club trip May 2017. Wonderful trip, but the 28? narrowboats in an unbroken line through the centre of London sure pissed the trip boat operators off Our last year cruising, the left the boat with a broker and flew directly home. We came off the river at Brentford. It was wonderful fun! I never thought I would go under the middle of Tower Bridge in my own boat. We enjoyed ourselves so much we did it again last year. THANK YOU SPCC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 13 hours ago, mark99 said: The cars look modern and bland.... so not that old. And one of them has an August 2012 plate on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 11 hours ago, TheBiscuits said: That's a picture across a marina! No it isn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 On this day in 1998 It had rained a lot, the watercourse was blocked somehow, the water pressure caused a failure, and the associated fountain filled and sank the open boat, innocently moored to the towingpath - between Braunston tunnel and top lock. Of the many ways to sink a boat this must be one of the most unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenataomm Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 12 hours ago, Curtis Carter said: Check my new Canal video this will cheer you up, Sorry chap, I'm sure it's excellent, however too jerky for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pluto Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 1995, and one of the locks built by Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 On this day in 2001 This is Copperkins emerging from Scout Tunnel, Huddersfield Narrow Canal as the first boat to make this journey from Stalybridge since the restoration. The canals had been closed by the Foot-and-Mouth outbreak, and so the opening of the restored canal had been postponed until this day, with only local publicity about the arrangements. So it was a major surprise to arrive below the locks at Stalybridge to find a small group of boats coming down the locks, having performed the opening ceremony. On the right of this image are Fred Carter and A Hemingway, in BW's then jolly-green-giant workgear (it was not a popular set of work clothing iirc) who monitored our progress to the bottom of Diggle flight which was the extent of possible progress for the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrown Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 On the day in 2018 we visited the rag and stick lads at Bowness.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted April 9, 2020 Report Share Posted April 9, 2020 On 08/04/2020 at 23:15, Tim Lewis said: My first thought was that this was Barton Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal, with Barton Viaduct (M60) in the background, and presumably photographed after the Salford National in 1988. But the building in the background isn't there now, and old mapsdon't show any such building. So I guess it must be Latchford Lock with Thelwall Viaduct (M6) in the background. Google Streetview shows new apartments in the background, but a bit of googling shows the site used to be occupied by the Richmond Gas Stove and Meter Company, so I guess that is it. More googling found this undated image labelled "Cargo ship Philipp passing through Latchford locks on the Manchester ship canal, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, UK." which confirms the location. From https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/cargo-ship-philipp-passing-through-latchford-locks-on-the-news-photo/976043236 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 1 hour ago, David Mack said: My first thought was that this was Barton Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal, with Barton Viaduct (M60) in the background, and presumably photographed after the Salford National in 1988. But the building in the background isn't there now, and old mapsdon't show any such building. So I guess it must be Latchford Lock with Thelwall Viaduct (M6) in the background. Google Streetview shows new apartments in the background, but a bit of googling shows the site used to be occupied by the Richmond Gas Stove and Meter Company, so I guess that is it. More googling found this undated image labelled "Cargo ship Philipp passing through Latchford locks on the Manchester ship canal, Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, UK." which confirms the location. From https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/cargo-ship-philipp-passing-through-latchford-locks-on-the-news-photo/976043236 Photo taken 30th August 1988 on the MSC convoy coming away from the IWA National Rally. In those days the MSC insisted that narrow boats transited the canal breasted up we we on Fulbourne ended up coupled up with President. This was great until they were told to shut thier engine down going passed Stanlow refinery ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 On the "count the narrowboats" thread, this is at Irlam locks on the Manchester Ship Canal heading for the Salford Quays IWA National Rally in August 1998 Tim Lewis mentioned his picture was "30th August 1988 on the MSC convoy coming away from the IWA National Rally" which was the Rally at Castleford in Manchester, and DavidMack typoed a mixture of the two "Salford National in 1988". Of the 1998 Salford IWA National, there is an excellent account of the three-stage convoy(s) in WaterwaysWorld November 1998 by Jim Shead from the tiller of nbLorna-Ann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 On this day in 2017: Aldersley Junction and it's Castlefield in #414, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scholar Gypsy Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 I sent in some photos for the "hidden gems" section in this week's CRT newsletter - with the photos of SCUPLTOR the only cheery bit this week I fear! https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/boating/boating-blogs-and-features/the-boaters-update/boaters-update-9-april-2020#gems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrown Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 On this day 2018 Early morning at Ambleside. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 10 hours ago, PeterScott said: Tim Lewis mentioned his picture was "30th August 1988 on the MSC convoy coming away from the IWA National Rally" which was the Rally at Castleford in Manchester, and DavidMack typoed a mixture of the two "Salford National in 1988". Oops! Yes I was confusing the two IWA National Rallies - Castlefield in 1988 and Salford Quays in 1998. And I went to both (but not by boat). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, sandgrown said: On this day 2018 Early morning at Ambleside. Lovely. Are you from Blackpool by any chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwatch Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 25 minutes ago, matty40s said: Lovely. Are you from Blackpool by any chance. Doyluhave a pi##ed cat? Sound/looks like I am. Do you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 42 minutes ago, matty40s said: That table needs some LeTonkenoise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 On this day in 2010 Knottingley Aire&Calder. Bigger than a narrowboat backcabin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 On this day in 2008 Saltersford Tunnel Trent&Mersey Canal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterScott Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 on this day in 2002 Hawkesbury Junction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrown Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 2 hours ago, matty40s said: Lovely. Are you from Blackpool by any chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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