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On 14/07/2020 at 12:15, Athy said:

Cor, proper industry! I love to see these old mill buildings, though I am not sure I would have loved working in one. No doubt it's all "luxury apartments" nowadays and thus much more salubrious inside.

4 hours ago, Athy said:

Ooh, proper industry! I suppose it's full of "luxury apartments" nowadays.

On 14/07/2020 at 12:48, PeterScott said:

Rowntree Wharf overlooking River Foss York

We can do you a three bedroom penthouse for £415,000.

Snip at the price.

Also from this day in 2012 from York River Foss Rowntree Wharf

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 On 14/07/2020 at 12:15, Athy said:

Cor, proper industry! I love to see these old mill buildings, though I am not sure I would have loved working in one. No doubt it's all "luxury apartments" nowadays and thus much more salubrious inside.

6 hours ago, Athy said:

Ooh, proper industry! I suppose it's full of "luxury apartments" nowadays.

1 hour ago, Athy said:

Gosh, recycling! I don't remember the earlier quote and what it referred to, but at last I'm consistent.

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Good excuse then for reflection

 

Another picture from 2012:

York River Foss Rowntree Wharf

 

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Today in 1985 we wrapped up warm and took Crane from Watford gap to Braunston. We had a potential buyer and he had a surveyor lined up. Once we got round Norton junction the ice on the summit was fairly strong but at least it’s straight, it turns that cause problems. 

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3 hours ago, bigcol said:

The rest of the boat is underneath!

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Yes, it wasn't too deep that morning (this day 2013 Streethay Wharf Coventry Canal) and memory is insufficient to recall the contents of the package by the doors. Having reversed-in to the mooring, walking along the gunwales  to unlock front doors wasn't as much fun as it might have been. Now have a lock/key for the back doors.

Still snowing here in Sheffield.

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On 14/06/2020 at 19:11, PeterScott said:

P6141357s.jpg.329a1be2adb895e131c1a757ca6f5a4b.jpg[14 June 2020]

... Aspley Basin [Huddersfield Broad Canal]

On 15/06/2020 at 10:51, Athy said:

It looks geometrically impossible for some of those boats to get out.

On 15/06/2020 at 11:57, Mike Tee said:

Which would mean it was geometrically impossible to get in - but they did!! Which makes it a miracle??

On 15/06/2020 at 12:04, Athy said:

Not really: the one furthest from the camera would have moored first, then the one second furthest, and so on. They would have had no obstructions. But now, for the ones further away to get out, all the boats between them and the camera would need to move - a highly unlikely occurrence.

On 13/01/2021 at 12:45, PeterScott said:

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On this day in 2007

Aspley Basin Huddersfield Broad Canal ...

 

 

They seem to squash the boats in, not just for the Accursed Virus.

 

Maybe from t'other end of the basin it might seem easier to jigsaw the way out, ...

... as seen by the nice MrGoogle in 2009 ......Aspley2009.jpg.df22de01fa168f35e319c09d3dc6942e.jpg and in 2019 ...

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Hmmmm .....

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It was around this time of year that a group of friends and I brought a Calder & Hebble barge from the Thames to a mooring at Lisson Grove on the Regent's Canal - a journey interrupted by ice, then getting stuck in the Maida Hill Tunnel. A bulge in the roof coincided with that battlement structure on the bow.

 

Flooding the bilges got us out, but first we had to lug heavy things forward, including a horrible old anchor, to get the right tilt. And there wasn't much room up there. As in many tunnels a million smoking chimneys had passed through before us, and an equal number of spider's webs had collected the soot. There had been an important function at the Earls Court Boat Show beforehand, and some of us were wearing suits. Mine had lines across it like the leading of a vestry window when we emerged.

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2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

This morning 2021

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spacer.pngRivelin Canal, even more picturesque a navigation, had it progressed beyond an 1826 plan. Compare #4095 (2020)

With a tunnel over four miles long? That would have been popular with boat crews.

I must admit I'd forgotten about the Rivelin Dams.

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18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

They seem to squash the boats in, not just for the Accursed Virus.

 

Maybe from t'other end of the basin it might seem easier to jigsaw the way out, ...

... as seen by the nice MrGoogle in 2009 ......Aspley2009.jpg.df22de01fa168f35e319c09d3dc6942e.jpg and in 2019 ...

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Hmmmm .....

They are manouvered in and out on ropes with a volunteer on both ends.

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