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24 minutes ago, Athy said:

John Liley, those Ashton shots are most illuminating. I'm sure that many people (myself included) did not realise what a parlous state the Ashton Canal was in.

It surely was. I was born in Ashton and spent the first fifteen years of my life witnessing its decline. In later years I got to know Graham Palmer quite well. As someone else said of him, "he was all do and no say," while the rest of us were talking he actually got things done. Graham died, alas, at the age of 51, while waiting for a heart operation.

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On 02/06/2020 at 18:34, OldGoat said:

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On the Phone??

Or maybe both. Definitely on the phone. I didn't enquire at the time: people wearing red are good for contrast in green-dominated pics ?

On 03/06/2020 at 16:34, Goliath said:

I have an inkling they lowered that gauge further when they repositioned the post. To make it even tougher to get a boat through. (it used to be closer to the tunnel before the visitor centre was built)

TNC mention the issues here

Yesterday in 2017

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Dudley Tunnel southern portal.

 

A fixed metal device, so a bad idea to arrive here and find it impossible to leave the tunnel.

 

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Graham had a film of the big Ashtac dig and in one bit it shows a volunteer carrying something towards a watching policeman who suddenly realizes what it is. It’s a small bomb! 
There was a cartoon in one of the local papers showing a small boy saying to his mother “they’re digging in our rubbish tip”.

Dear Graham I still miss him even though he set the ceiling of Crane alight by not making sure the stove door was properly shut. Luckily we were sitting in the window of Hillmorton pub, which we always knew as Sid Strongs, when smoke was noticed coming out of the slide.

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16 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2017

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Soulbury GUSouth

On more then one occasion when we were cruising back to our winter mooring before decamping back to the southern hemisphere to avoid winters my birthday in early October was celebrated in the building shown here

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22 minutes ago, DandV said:

On more then one occasion when we were cruising back to our winter mooring before decamping back to the southern hemisphere to avoid winters my birthday in early October was celebrated in the building shown here

I have a happy memory of that building, even though we haven't been there since our first British hire-boat holiday (from nearby Wyvern) in 1995. We had previously been in the Globe which we didn't rate at all, so this was the one which gave us faith in what pleasant places canalside pubs could be.

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18 hours ago, John Liley said:

A mere 416 kilometres in length so Wikipedia tells us, with two monasteries mentioned and a diminishing number of fine wooden buildings, although locks are not mentioned. Again, I would guess, an area to explore in summer.

We found several wooden churches which had survived at agricultural warehouses, with painting as below. There was also one church which had been converted to a power station, with diesel generator. The last photo is of one of the wooden locks we found.

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spacer.pngOn this day 2017 Caledonian canalIMG_6229.JPG.3690644c9ac3aad3b6de34488a1d87c6.JPG

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The crew relaxing Loch NessIMG_6234.JPG.6e7b22fb1a4e1f61a7e6ad6f370d7773.JPG

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Our home for the week. An old but sound boat. We had no issues with it. Moored below Fort Augustus locks.

 

 

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27 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

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http://www.robertwynnandsons.co.uk/concorde_gallery.html

 

Bigger than it looks that barge!

 

If my memory is correct it was loaded at the wharf at Isleworth. This the view from the river of the wharf taken last year with the church of All Saints in the background. Which incidentally is the church we were married in many many years ago!!1606885243_AllSaintsIsleworth.JPG.1072f5bd321a4c3211ddef093b440f41.JPG

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11 hours ago, Pluto said:

We found several wooden churches which had survived at agricultural warehouses, with painting as below. There was also one church which had been converted to a power station, with diesel generator. The last photo is of one of the wooden locks we found.

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Great stuff again. A real adventure!

 

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