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A dredger emerges from the Biesbosch, a protected marshland area close beside the main trade routes past Dordrecht in the Netherlands. The dredging bucket was operated from a donkey engine by the mast, with the appropriate ropes being wound on or off by someone who knew what they were doing.

 

Travelling by overnight ferry from Harwich we spent several long weekends exploring the many creeks and passageways here. They made a Leeds& Liverpool barge feel quite large.

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On this day in 1988

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Weir (and ford) by George Billington Lock, River Avon

spacer.pngMoorings are in the lock cut and the access to t'pub was across the weir/ford. On an earlier trip in 1975, there was more enthusiasm for beer than there was for collecting it, resulting in a crossing carrying beer in each hand. Depending on the flow of water, this could be more scary than  sensible.

 

 

Excellent photos of the Avon restoration here

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On this day 2019 two members of this forum (matty40s and kathleenbridget) got married and a third member Kiwidad was best man.. The reception was at Stowe Hill wharf. Happy anniversary to them.IMG_3784.JPG.12a5ba1ee8005e4ba5543d3b6e3390bd.JPGIMG_7849.JPG.2d3acc88bc8a8c2afc59187ffc5b3883.JPG

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33 minutes ago, Joe Bourke said:

Goole Boat House Marina. The Docks and River Ouse in the distance.  The Aire & Calder Canal to the left, and the Dutch River (Don) to the right.

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Is that the same River Don which flows through Sheffield and (of course) Doncaster? I grew up in Sheffield but never heard it called the "Dutch River".

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12 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1990

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Banbury (Bus Station) Southern Oxford

It must be raining, no kids to drop the bridge on the roof for you

7 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

We went to find this in 2004. Specially built for gravel to plant near Uxbridge. Terrible thing to steer and bit tight in lock. Water is ballast for return trip.

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I was looking for a photo of one of those things last week, I thought I had one somewhere. I understand there was no reverse so you couldn't chuck the crap off.

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20 minutes ago, Joe Bourke said:

Yes it's the very same.  The River Don was diverted by the Dutch, hence the name. The course of it altered from Stainforth to the Ouse.

Thank you! In the words of the late Mr. Desmond Dekker, "The more that you live is the more that you learn".

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52 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

It must be raining, no kids to drop the bridge on the roof for you

I was looking for a photo of one of those things last week, I thought I had one somewhere. I understand there was no reverse so you couldn't chuck the crap off.

As I remember the whole unit turned 180 degrees to give reverse. The strange thing was to my way of thinking was that the prop was in front of the unit when going ahead so in effect pulling instead of pushing. I would have thought like any outdrive or outdoor motor the prop would be after the leg. As it was designed by a “navel architect “ they maybe consulted the wrong kind of navel specialist.

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1 minute ago, Dav and Pen said:

As I remember the whole unit turned 180 degrees to give reverse. The strange thing was to my way of thinking was that the prop was in front of the unit when going ahead so in effect pulling instead of pushing. I would have thought like any outdrive or outdoor motor the prop would be after the leg. As it was designed by a “navel architect “ they maybe consulted the wrong kind of navel specialist.

You would of course get a much better flow towards the prop with nothing in front of it,  Most aircraft with props work that way, only a few push.

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The locK in Charleroi R. Sambre Belgium 2004. This canalised River is very busy with barges bringing scrap to the steel works as the one behind the lock. The passage through here was really filthy with dust from the works getting everywhere. The area was once the power house of Belgium but is now very run down. The waterways in the French speaking part are free and on Sundays commercials don’t move so we always did this river on a Sunday and just after Charleroi it becomes a very pleasant.

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On this day 2019.

 

This was the last cruise that we had on Naughty-Cal before she was lifted ashore in August 2019.

 

It was also the last cruise our friends had on Nitty Gritty. They were taking her to Burton Waters to be sold.

 

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5 hours ago, Richard T said:

On this day 2019 two members of this forum (matty40s and kathleenbridget) got married and a third member Kiwidad was best man.. The reception was at Stowe Hill wharf. Happy anniversary to them.IMG_3784.JPG.12a5ba1ee8005e4ba5543d3b6e3390bd.JPGIMG_7849.JPG.2d3acc88bc8a8c2afc59187ffc5b3883.JPG

Big greeny from us two.

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2 hours ago, Phil Knowles said:

On this day in 2007

Liverpool docks - was this the infamous lightship?

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Looks much the same but this was it in June 2013. Planet was seized in 2016, I believe, but not moved out for some time. Look up forum thread which was lengthy at the time. I don't know when it was repainted between 2013 and 2017. The B A R was quite iconic at one time (even if one of its problems was sailing quite close to the wind over the regs for licensed premises, as reported)

 

 

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On this day in 2014

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Bridge 78aaa Botany Bay L&L

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Entirely speculation, but one of the last enthusiasms of BW was to have a number on each bridge - a useful safety issue for those phoning for assistance. Let's guess that the instruction from Head Office allowed little discretion, and at this point there was already a Bridge 78 on one side of the motorway and a railway bridge with the number 78A (from earlier bridge-numbering enthusiasm) on t'other. There is a bridge for each carriageway, so we can guess that whoever filled in the form commissioning the signs had a bit of a chuckle and wrote down 78aa and 78aaa, just to see what happened ...

 

But who knows, it could be an entirely different scenario...

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