Jump to content

Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.


DandV

Featured Posts

17 hours ago, John Liley said:

Animal haulage, again. On the upper Loire sand barges float down on the current from a dredger, then with a finely-judged tweak, alter course for the lock giving access to a branch of the Lateral Canal. For years the tweak was delivered by Rene Guichard, who tapped on the towline with his stick, then tapped again for his charges to stop pulling. It all worked like magic. When Rene passed away a tractor had to be used instead and it was never quite the same.

Mules, Decize.jpeg

Interesting, I have several recorded accounts of English boatmen saying if a pair of donkeys were used they always had to be side by side. If not the front one would keep stopping to look for the one behind.

Edited by Ray T
  • Greenie 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2009

spacer.png

 

Across Royal Victoria Dock Royal Docks off River Thames London, towards London City Airport. Plane landing.

 

spacer.png

The green area, top right, just down  from what looks like a lighthouse, is pretty close to where "Woolwich" narrowboats were built.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

As I was saying when interrupted yesterday ... Forum down for an update ...  New format installed, with quirks ... Powercut in our part of Sheffield ..._sigh_  And So To Bed

 

Yesterday (18Jan) in 2017

spacer.png

 

spacer.pngOn Boxing Day 2015, water from the River Ouse and River Foss in York combined to flood 627 homes and more than 300 people were evacuated. The flood barrier on the River Foss was raised because the pumping station capacity was lower than the flow arriving at the pumps from the River Foss. There was much public criticism as the flood surrounded a raised flood barrier, which was seen as not doing its job. 

The Foss Barrier picture is from 12Jan2012. It was constructed in 1989,  and the moveable barrier is a large turn-and-lift gate, which when in flood-defence mode, isolates the Foss from the Ouse, stopping Ouse water from flowing upstream into the Foss.  The optimum level of water in the Foss is maintained by pumping its water around the (closed) barrier, directly into the Ouse with eight high volume pumps, combined capacity of just over 30m3/s (30 tonnes per second) .

The modelled solution was to double the pump capacity and show how and if the new system would work with the increased flow both into and out of the pumps. The pumps were first modelled on the computer, which enabled many scenarios to be tried, then the preferred solution was modelled in the physical laboratory in Yeadon to prove the principle.

The picture above was a visit to Yeadon by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 18/01/2021 at 08:37, PeterScott said:

spacer.pngOn this day in 2009

 

Across Royal Victoria Dock Royal Docks off River Thames London, towards London City Airport. Plane landing.

 

 

And also Yesterday (18Jan) 2009

spacer.png

 

Another plane landing. And across the dock towards Canary Wharf

 

spacer.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Continuing yesterday (18Jan) 2019

spacer.pngspacer.pngspacer.png

 

The inlets for the Fubourne engine watercooling, Circus Field Basin, Aylesbury,  Mending cloths,  and contemplating the propellor.

 

spacer.png

Aylesbury Basin Compare #3419 (1980) #4087 (2009) #488 #2910 #4931 (2013)  More eighteenths of January

Edited by PeterScott
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On this day in 2009

spacer.png

 

Royal Docks London. Early start 5.45am so that the group of narrowboats could have passed the City Airport runways before any morning flights. Something to do with large lumps of moving metal upsetting their radar. (Compare aerial view here)

spacer.png

 

spacer.png

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.