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

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, MHS said:

Variety is the spice of life. On the 11th May in:

2015, Whitby

2017, West Bromwich

2019, Bamberg

 

... but not necessarily in the right order!

(Unless West Bromwich has changed a lot since I was last there).

[MHS]

13 minutes ago, David Mack said:

... but not necessarily in the right order!

(Unless West Bromwich has changed a lot since I was last there).

I know, i couldn’t seem to switch them around after the uploaded. 

The lock flight there was entertaining as some of the Special Brew drinkers kept us amused with their life stories!!

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

we winded at Burbage K&A

[Jim Riley]

29 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2006

we winded at Burbage K&A

One day you might manage it smoothly. ?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2002

Hardings Wood Junction (T&M: Main Line with Hall Green Branch)

 

No swans were harmed in the taking of this photograph

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

T&M

[Athy]

5 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2002

 

 

No swans were harmed in the taking of this photograph

Try harder.

[PeterScott]

14 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day [10 May] in 2002

Hardings Wood Junction (T&M: Main Line with Hall Green Branch)

No swans were harmed in the taking of this photograph

9 hours ago, Athy said:

Try harder.

On this day (11 May) in 2001, same bridge, same boat, different crew on the front, and consecutive pictures. From the reddish bit on the creature's head, surely the same swan. And but for the accursed virus, lockdown etc We Would Never Have Known: 364 days before, we had tried harder, but Not Hard Enough. To use the modern expression "How Cool Is That?"

Edited May 12, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Dog. T&M.

[PeterScott]

On this day 2002

Cute kid. Olivia on Macclesfield C

[David Mack]

2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2018

Dog. T&M.

June 2019

Dog. Rochdale Canal.

21 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day 2002

Cute kid. Olivia on Macclesfield C

Not helping with navigation though.

 

August 2001

Pippa (age 4) steering* , with 6 year old sister Clare on hand to assist. Great Ouse.

 

* well, hand on the tiller at least.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

Fazeley, B&F

[Dav and Pen]

Lock art on the Burgundy canal. Lots of them favour gnomes and windmills.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Paddington Branch GUSouth.

On the canals, self-righting-from-upside-down will be used infrequently

[John Liley]

After discovering negatives from long ago ... In a lift on the Canal du Centre in Belgium, and in a lock at Antwerp, facing forward, then looking aft.

[John Liley]

Richard, Peter, Happy Nomad, Thank you for the acknowledgements. Belgium does  have its bucolic side Two views  here of the happily reopened Blaton-Ath Canal. The white van belongs to the travelling lock-keeper, escorting a four-boat group. The canal is said to be shallow, a mere four feet!

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Kintbury K&A

[DandV]

1 hour ago, John Liley said:

Richard, Peter, Happy Nomad, Thank you for the acknowledgements. Belgium does  have its bucolic side Two views  here of the happily reopened Blaton-Ath Canal. The white van belongs to the travelling lock-keeper, escorting a four-boat group. The canal is said to be shallow, a mere four feet!

Lovely to tune in each morning to a new offering of familiar scenes, European boating, and canal history and engineering, when the other web sites are largely offering variations of body counts, and news of failing politicians. We must remind ourselves in these incredibly challenging times that the world still has an incredible amount of of beauty, and interest. Thanks everybody for their contributions to the sanity of this thread, and take care. 

 

[John Liley]

My thanks to yourselves for getting this going, and to all who have participated. There have been departures, certainly by myself, from the specification of nice things today but the general wish is to be interesting, I am sure. This field pattern at Montady, beside the Canal du Midi hopefully complies, although it is, I believe eight centuries old!.

[PeterScott]

12 hours ago, DandV said:

Lovely to tune in each morning to a new offering of familiar scenes, European boating, and canal history and engineering

It's the European boating of which I have very few pictures. Here from August 1983 is a view of Rotterdam from Euromast and some detail of the radial gates of the lock

 

[Dav and Pen]

The lift at Les Fontinettes near Arques. It was built to the same design as Anderton but able to carry 38m peniche.

Replaced in 1967 by a 13.5 m deep lock able to pass 3000 tones push tows when the canal was upgraded. It was retained as a monument and is at present having more work done to preserve it.

Edited May 13, 2020 by Dav and Pen
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Alrewas

Let's not get hung-up on this

Or indeed go around in circles.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2013

Salford Quays

Edited May 13, 2020 by PeterScott

[ditchcrawler]

Does anyone recognise anyone here

[David Mack]

Don't recognise any of the boats, but I do recognise the location. 1988?