Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

Dobson Staircase L&L.

We were heading the other way to 1 May 2015 so the useful bike allows all the swing bridges hereabouts to be ready for the boat without needing to stop.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

Stretton Aqueduct Shropshire Union C

and then southwards on S&W at Autherley for some nostalgia at the diesel price.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

Fulbourne and Angel breasted through Camden locks Regents C

[PeterScott]

13 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

 

This bit of the navigable drains may be a problem. ... Hagnaby Lock 2018... The channel the other side of the bridge.

Gosh, never been there. I'm very bad at visits-by-car to the Navigable Drains, as I neither plan properly, nor have useful maps to hand, nor even scribble down where I am. Hmmm If I allowed the camera to use lots-of-battery it will do the where-are-we job, so I ought to do that in future. Which is all a poor excuse for not knowing exactly where this bit of exciting navigation is:

(from 2015 but I don't suppose it will have changed much). I was trying to find the end-of-navigation of Medlam Drain, found a bridge, and pointed the camera in each direction and then at the bridge we were on. Looking at the nice Mr Google, it is definitely Medlam Bridge, but nowhere near the end of navigation. Another place-to-go when the accursed lockdown is done ?

 

[Keeping Up]

Not actually this precise day, actually on 7th May 2011, on our exploration of the Drains we travelled a few stretches that looked un-navigable but weren't. Including the dyke to New Bolingbroke (where the local were so pleased to see a couple of boats that they insisted that we go to the pub so that they could buy us a beer)

 

 

Then when we reached Bunkers Hill several people stopped their cars and ran down the slope to warn us that a boat couldn't fit through the tunnel; we proved them wrong!

 

 

But we were defeated by No Man's Friend bridge because the water level was a few inches up. No photo of that one, unfortunately.

[PeterScott]

3 hours ago, Keeping Up said:

 our exploration of the Drains

That's very useful, and later than TNC Yours refernces the IWA map: TNC have theirs and I have an old version of the IWA one: not all say quite the same thing, so it's certainly a good 'explore' trip. Not for this year, sadly. ...

[Chris Lowe]

Medlam Drain 2018 

 

 

I was staying next to the drain in this.

 

3 hours ago, Keeping Up said:

Not actually this precise day, actually on 7th May 2011, on our exploration of the Drains we travelled a few stretches that looked un-navigable but weren't. Including the dyke to New Bolingbroke (where the local were so pleased to see a couple of boats that they insisted that we go to the pub so that they could buy us a beer)

Was that the Red Lion at Revesby?

[Keeping Up]

15 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

Was that the Red Lion at Revesby?

No I think it was called the Royal Oak.

[Chris Lowe]

1 hour ago, Keeping Up said:

No I think it was called the Royal Oak.

Probably the Royal Oak at New Bolingbroke it's been closed for a while now or it was last time I went there and so is the Jolly Sailor at Hagnaby lock.

It's petty much the Red Lion at Revesby or East Kirkby for beer now.

[PeterScott]

A couple of images of Cowbridge Lock (WND) from 2015 and 1992. Changes seem to come slowly in these parts

 

Edited May 2, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019. Floating windowbox

St Pancras Regents Canal

[Dorlan]

This day, 2007. I think it's the only time I've seen anything crossing a lift bridge on the Oxford Canal!

[TheBiscuits]

On 30/04/2020 at 10:28, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2005

under Skipton Castle, Springs Branch L&L.

 

 

4th July 2017 for that photo Peter.  It's the bow of Good Times when I was using the "natural" method of preparation for painting. 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1994

Winding (actually trying and failing to wind) below between lock 9/10 Kilclare Shannon-Erne Waterway

 

[PeterScott]

1 hour ago, TheBiscuits said:

4th July 2017 for that photo Peter.  It's the bow of Good Times when I was using the "natural" method of preparation for painting. 

Ah yes, thanks. Super pic. Here's one from this day in 2016 from the path looking back towards Skipton Junction.

It will be five years since it happened on Boxing Day 2020. Good time for a protest rally there, then ??

[Dav and Pen]

Spent some time in Gerties bar Keshcarrigan in 1990 it was a really classic bar and shop. You had to have a prepaid card for the canal which worked the locks and the washing machines which were in the amenity blocks along the way. We only ever brought one as the hire boats we meet at the end of their trips gave us theirs which always had some unused credit.

[PeterScott]

9 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

...You had to have a prepaid card for the canal which worked the locks...

Yes, it was the card that didn't work the lock mechanism on this trip. So the trip boat that was to be our conveyance to see the new canal couldn't turn around. So the local boat club set-to and gave all forty (?) of us rides on their own boats. Which was brilliant.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1997

Braunston Turn ...

... with a cofferdam in the Birmingham-to-Oxford bit of the triangle.

 

And it all goes to prove that a 70' boat can easily turn towards Oxford even if it has gone the 'wrong' way around the triangle

[Dav and Pen]

The not so Grand Canal Ireland

[matty40s]

8 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1997

 

Braunston Turn ...

... with a cofferdam in the Birmingham-to-Oxford bit of the triangle.

 

And it all goes to prove that a 70' boat can easily turn towards Oxford even if it has gone the 'wrong' way around the triangle

The bit facing Midland Chandlers has needed redoing for a few years now as the top concrete slabs have collapsed in the middle and the turn corner hanging off.

Ideal time to do it with no historic boat show and hire boats around.

In fact, it's the bit that the bloke is bricking up there. 

Surprised it only lasted 15 years or so.

Edited May 2, 2020 by matty40s

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

Swindon Lock S&W. Good (boating) practice to be prepared for what might happen next and to follow the instructions on the sign.

Edited May 2, 2020 by PeterScott
unmerge a merge

[PeterScott]

 9 minutes ago, matty40s said:

... the middle and the turn corner hanging off....

Quite so. ?

From Braunston Historic Boat Rally 2019

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

Bingley 5-rise L&L

Edited May 2, 2020 by PeterScott
smaller pic

[Ray T]

On 01/05/2020 at 17:58, buccaneer66 said:

This bit of the navigable drains may be a problem. @PeterScott

 

Hagnaby Lock 2018

 

The channel the other side of the bridge.

 

 

Won't get very far up the Griff Arm either.

 

Although there is still some of it in water beyond St Georges way Bermuda Estate Nuneaton.

Edited May 2, 2020 by Ray T

[PeterScott]

10 hours ago, Ray T said:

Won't get very far up the Griff Arm either

Excellent thought ? It set me off researching this picture from 1971 and whether it was at the Griff Arm as I originally had it classified, or the Newdigate Arm, as the bridge and the Nice Mr Google now seems to suggest. And all before breakfast, too.