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[Athy]

18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

Surely a "mooree" is a person who has been moored by someone else.

 

 

 

 

You'd think so - but some 'buses have a sign stating the permitted number of "standees". I watched them a few times, but they all seemed to stand up on their own.

Edited November 11, 2020 by Athy

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

River Wyre ferry- washing the Knott End landing stage

 

 

low tide

 

[Pluto]

2006, and the now-disused feed above the bottom lock at Bank Newton. A sluice was fitted to the arch of the culvert accessed by a gate in the towpath side seen top middle. When the sluice was closed, water would feed into the canal below the lock through the small culvert on the left. Today the lower end of this culvert has been piled off and part of the culvert has collapsed.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

Blackpool Compare #4134 (2005) #4086 #4109 #4130 (2012)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Cromford Canal Leawood Aqueduct

 

and

 

Leawood Pumphouse

 

Compare #1692 (last photo was this day)

 

 

 

 

[David Mack]

18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

Showing very clearly where the canal used to continue under the railway, through Arches Lock and into the River Aire.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1990

 

Sheffield Basin

 

a moneyraising sponsored boatpull for church bell restoration

 

Compare 

#889 (1995)

#1707 (2006)

#3726 (2016)

#2791 #2801 (2017)

#2288 #3479 (2019)

#2434 (2020)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

 

Fleetwood River Wyre

for the ferry to Knott End

 

Compare #4152

 

Bird

 

Sign at Knot End - from IFCA

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Butterley Tunnel

 

Cromford Canal

 

and another view from June 2008

Edited November 11, 2020 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Autumnal colours at Whittington B+F 

More elevenths of November. Try clicking on the three vertical dots (menu) and then selecting the slideshow option. And So To Bed

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Curdworth B+F

 

 

 

[Pluto]

2015, and a view across a flooded Aire Valley to the canal at Bradley.

[Pluto]

15 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1979

Butterley Tunnel

Cromford Canal

Plan of the passing/loading bay in the middle of the tunnel.

[Ray T]

Braunston this morning.

 

No digital electronic manipulation just an honest straightforward photo! 

Edited November 12, 2020 by Ray T

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, Ray T said:

Braunston this morning.

 

No digital electronic manipulation just an honest straightforward photo! 

It must be a fake - you are on the move! (Or am I just obsessively jealous?)

[Ray T]

Just now, Mike Todd said:

It must be a fake - you are on the move! (Or am I just obsessively jealous?)

Taken from Midland Chandlers yard. Our boat is stuck on the T & M, not allowed to visit, my feet on terra firma! 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1983

 

Holme Mills Lock, Biggleswade, River Ivel Navigation

 

The Waymarkers say "Next to the lock is a mysterious bust on a pedestal. It is thought that Italian prisoners of war placed it here."

 

Ken on Flikr says "It is a fact a bust of Jesus. Apparently made by an Italian prisoner of war in 1943, it was carved from sandstone and faced with cement. It is in a poor state of repair but is very unusual as Jesus is normal only portrayed as full length or just the head."

[Rob-M]

58 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:

It must be a fake - you are on the move! (Or am I just obsessively jealous?)

You could have photoshopped out the side fenders.

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, Ray T said:

Taken from Midland Chandlers yard. Our boat is stuck on the T & M, not allowed to visit, my feet on terra firma! 

I'm still jealous . . . 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

Paddlegear Calcutt flight GU

Edited November 12, 2020 by PeterScott
unmerge a merge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Curdworth flight B+F

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

 

 

Rebuilding of Odyssey after the June fire.

 

Compare

#3515 (23Sept2005) 

#2181 (30June2005)

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Drayton Manor Footbridge

 

Compare

#3790 (2002)

#1192 #3618 (2011)

#4066 (2014)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Factory using the canal's airspace, near Troutpool Bridge, Erdington B+F.

 

A CWDF thread here. It digresses a bit here and there. :-)

 

Roger Kidd on Geograph says "The industrial building ... is built across the canal for about 200 metres. Aerial images from 2019 show the building being demolished. Aerial images from the mid-1930s show this was the Birlec Electric Furnace Works alongside the canal. The concrete structures supporting the extension across the canal are characteristic of the 1960s."

 

 

Underneath [5Nov2014]

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Farmers Bridge flight B+F

More twelfths of November. Try clicking on the three vertical dots (menu) and then selecting the slideshow option. And So To Bed