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On this day in 2009

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BCN Challenge. W&E, BCN

While we were fortunate to avoid this train of supermarket trollies arond the prop, but we did end the day perched on the top of an office cupboard or similar contraption on the B&F

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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2009

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BCN Challenge. W&E, BCN

While we were fortunate to avoid this train of supermarket trollies arond the prop, but we did end the day perched on the top of an office cupboard or similar contraption on the B&F

End the day? As I recall we were an hour or so into the following day by the time the BW guys had winched us off, and got us moving again. 

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The extension of the Solovki canals c1910, when a new reservoir was required for the new Hydro-electric power station. These canals were also used for moving timber. The photo is from the Library of Congress digital collection. The second photo is of the remains of the English steam launch.

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Thank you. I had heard of the White Sea Canal (just) and its dark history, but nothing of this. Gratifying to learn of its return to some kind of normality, although visiting the area, I would guess ,is a summer-only experience.

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16 hours ago, John Liley said:

Thank you. I had heard of the White Sea Canal (just) and its dark history, but nothing of this. Gratifying to learn of its return to some kind of normality, although visiting the area, I would guess ,is a summer-only experience.

Two more photos, the first of the monastery in mid-April before the ice broke up. The second was taken from the train on the way north, and shows one of the timber wharfs on the White Sea Canal. The canal linked several lakes, and was supposed to be large enough for small naval vessels. Timber - Stalin's green gold - was carried or rafted on the canal, with much of it on its way to America. Gorky wrote a book about the construction of the canal, and when I was there you could still buy Belomorskkanal cigarettes which had originally been supplied to the prisoners building the canal. A diet of vodka was probably required if you smoked them.

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On this day 2019

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Marple Aqueduct

 

P6013597s.JPG.970767fd9ac59c6e2610e2f5836bee0c.JPG... with its new offside railings.

 

See also #1000  - before anything on the offside.

 

For the avoidance of readers' stress, nobody was hurt in this incident ? relayed by a C&RT engineer.

 

A boat crossed the aqueduct with it sidedoors open and an unsupervised three-and-a-bit-year-old child climbed up the side-steps and out onto the path beside the boat, to the discomfort of parent-steerer who had the heebie-jeebies in the retrieval of said child. They subsequently complained to C&RT.

 

 

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4 hours ago, Pluto said:

Two more photos, the first of the monastery in mid-April before the ice broke up. The secondimageproxy.php?img=&key=fba7ffdd30274950 was taken from the train on the way north, and shows one of the timber wharfs on the White Sea Canal. The canal linked several lakes, and was supposed to be large enough for small naval vessels. Timber - Stalin's green gold - was carried or rafted on the canal, with much of it on its way to America. Gorky wrote a book about the construction of the canal, and when I was there you could still buy Belomorskkanal cigarettes which had originally been supplied to the prisoners building the canal. A diet of vodka was probably required if you smoked them.

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Thank you again. Wikipedia has considerable coverage of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, and a lead into a separate site on the Solovetsky Islands, now seen as "one of the major tourist magnets in the orbit of the Russian North."

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This map shows the canal system on the main Solovki Island. The navigable part of the system was originally canals K2 to K8, with canals K9 to K11 added when the hydro-electric station was built next to the Kremlin circa 1910.

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Today

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Mirfield lock cut Calder and Hebble Navigation

 

P6018072s.jpg.45b4c2c2232018e511e83e3c27aa1948.jpgThe only navigator on the move this afternoon. He said that going upriver needed significantly more oomph than the return journey

 

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3 hours ago, Pluto said:

This map shows the canal system on the main Solovki Island. The navigable part of the system was originally canals K2 to K8, with canals K9 to K11 added when the hydro-electric station was built next to the Kremlin circa 1910.

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Just to put a scale on this, I understand the main islandoccupies around 95 square miles, so the area the map covers is around 10 miles, i would guess. Just as ball-park figure, so to speak.

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5 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

15776DFD-99AC-42C8-B594-3CB9FE2DDBCB.jpegGayton arm end 1971 just before the Northampton rally. 

Gayton Junction 2015 just before the Northampton rally Festival of Water. Pity that the boat wasn't going that way ?

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On 06/05/2020 at 21:18, John Liley said:

DSC_0585.JPG... Watford Locks on the Grand Union, Leicester Section, ...

On this day in 2002:

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Watford Locks, GU Leicester Line

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not forgetting #910, and that in those days the BW logo on uniform-clothing was only used by their paid staff.

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