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

[PeterScott]

(#5025) On this day in 2008

 

 

Lock 4 Aylesbury Arm GU

[DandV]

9 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

(#5025) On this day in 2008

 

 

Lock 4 Aylesbury Arm GU

That tree lockside had almost doubled in height before we first saw it in 2014.

But what fascinated me was was the adjacent NZ kowhai, that while it had abundant yellow flowers in spring as we departed Aylesbury, there were no seed pods on our return in Autumn. I put this down to no local pollinating birds, our tuis, bellbirds, and silver eyes, but it may just have been the cottage residents had plucked the seed pods off.

[Athy]

What a delightful house - until there's a flood. It appears very low-lying.

[DandV]

8 minutes ago, Athy said:

What a delightful house - until there's a flood. It appears very low-lying.

"Please leave the lock empty to avoid flooding the adjacent cottage" or words to that effect" CART notice lockside

Peter Scott has a photo of the actual notice in an earlier post.

[PeterScott]

6 hours ago, DandV said:

That tree lockside had almost doubled in height before we first saw it in 2014.

But what fascinated me was was the adjacent NZ kowhai, that while it had abundant yellow flowers in spring as we departed Aylesbury, there were no seed pods on our return in Autumn. I put this down to no local pollinating birds, our tuis, bellbirds, and silver eyes, but it may just have been the cottage residents had plucked the seed pods off.

 

From t'other direction in April 2019. Here are some more from the database over the last dozen years. The (i) link has the dates. Sadly my experience of a NZ kowhai plant is wholly lacking ?

6 hours ago, Athy said:

What a delightful house - until there's a flood. It appears very low-lying.

 

Yes the overflows along the branch are often insufficient for the water that flows along it

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

Leeds Dock A&C. Floodgates closed

 

 

What Curly Ears You Have

 

Entrance to the Royal Armouries Museum is behind Leeds Dock and the curly ears are by the walkway around the Dock

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

Berko GU

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

Marsworth Reservoir GU

 

 

Aylesbury Arm GU

 

 

More twentysevenths of January. And So To Bed

Edited January 27, 2021 by PeterScott
still doing merges, then. Oh well leave this one merged.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

 

 

Rochdale Canal - Luddendenfoot (Bridge 6)  - Brearley Lock No 5

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Bingley 5-rise on a BW Open Day

 

Compare

#4504 (1971)

#4780 (1974)

#743 #823 (2004)

#1908 (2007)

#4502 (2008)

#4505 (also this day 2012)

 

and a 1908 illustration from

Inland Cruising on the Rivers and Canals of England and Wales

by George Westall

 

Edited January 28, 2021 by PeterScott
link

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Napton Locks Southern Oxford

 

 

 

at the top of the Napton flight, Old Engine Arm Southern Oxford

[Athy]

My favourite lock flight. I love the way it slices through proper middle England. The fact that there's a decent pub at the bottom of it helps too.

I've passed the Engine Arm dozens of times but never ventured down it. Is there any trace of an "engine" at its end?

 

[PeterScott]

1 hour ago, Athy said:

...

I've passed the Engine Arm dozens of times but never ventured down it. Is there any trace of an "engine" at its end?

The moorings and in-water canal go about halfway to where the enginehouse once was. A local history website confirms my memory: "This half mile feeder arm was navigable until 1948. The canal was constructed ... under the power of the 1786 Act ... to use any water found within a thousand yards of the canal. A pumping engine was placed at the end and water discharged into the summit pound (sic). Following the construction of a reservoir at Boddington in 1811 the pump ceased to be used regularly. The building [at the end] is now clad in corrugated iron. ... difficult to tell if this was the original building."

The 25-inch map from about 1900 shows the Engine House: the line to the south-east is a feeder, still sketched-out in the aerial view

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

Bates Boatyard Puttenham Aylesbury Arm GU Compare #4828 (2016) #3968 (2017) with a lot of water headed down the Arm

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Sowerby Bridge Basin C&H Compare 6Jul2007  5Aug2007 4Oct2015  20Jan2016

 

 

 

 

Sowerby Bridge Locks Rochdale Canal

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

 

More from Bingley 5-rise open day and the seven thousand people who visited.

[ditchcrawler]

5 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2006

 

 

Napton Locks Southern Oxford

 

 

 

 

at the top of the Napton flight, Old Engine Arm Southern Oxford

That was a paint job I did myself

[Ray T]

2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2016

Sowerby Bridge Locks Rochdale Canal

 

 

Calder & Hebble 2006.

 

 

Edited January 28, 2021 by Ray T

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Plank footbridge

 

Southern Oxford (summit) No 131A

 

Replaced in 2009 and called The Wedding Bridge

 

[Nightwatch]

34 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2006

 

Plank footbridge

 

Southern Oxford (summit) No 131A

 

Replaced in 2009 and called The Wedding Bridge

 

Know the old and the new bridges.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Rochdale Canal

 

Broadbottom Bridge No 13

 

The day was designed around having a boat in the correct position for filming a One Show report by Andy Kershaw on the progress of the response of the people and authorities in the Calder Valley to the 2005 Boxing Day flooding.

 

A lot of time was spent securing a good shot of Andy Kershaw's dog getting on to the boat, which it was reluctant to do while the aforesaid Andy was still on the towingpath.

 

And by Red Acre Bridge 12: a peninsular deposited during the flood.

 

 

[PeterScott]

On 27/01/2021 at 15:41, PeterScott said:

... the overflows along the [GU Aylesbury] branch are often insufficient for the water that flows along it

 

this day 2008 had a significant flow of water down the Branch. The bottom lock and Park Street Bridge

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Bingley L+L

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Soutnern Oxford summit br 126  A Wiggly Bit and from br 125

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1995

 

Stockton Top Marina GU