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On 20/04/2021 at 12:50, Jen-in-Wellies said:

 

So not a mini roundabout then. Live and learn.

Jen ?

If I remember correctly it carried a freight siding from the nearby 'main' line (maybe returned to operation one day?) to unload wagons at Victoria Mill to the right side of the canal in the photo.

 

see https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595887

and also

https://potteries.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=33330&SearchType=2&ThemeID=588

https://www.cuct.org.uk/caldon/history-site-part-1

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5 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1972

 

With a towingpath inside ...

 

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Harecastle Tunnel

 

Kidsgrove portal T&M  Compare  15Sep1978  8May2004  19May2007  25Sep2012   26Sep2012  26Oct2014   13Oct2015  26May2018  9May2019   8Sep2020

Useless facts department.

The hull across the entrance was originally a horse boat "Germany." 

After WW1 broke out it was renamed "England."

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9 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

In 2012 the protest cruise on the Sambre Oise canal had arrived in Etreaux at the top of a flight of locks which went down to where the stoppage was. Many of the boats stayed at the top but we and a few others went down as far as we could. (Can’t locate photos).

The author  Robert Louis Stevenson canoed along this waterway and writes about in his book An Inland Voyage, and the poet Wilfred Owens was killed on 4 nov 1918 whilst trying to cross the canal at Ors. The commune has rebuilt the game keepers cottage where he was taken and his poems are displayed inside. Closed when we were there.

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This is the cellar in the house, now painted white, in which Wilfred Owen spent his final night with his comrades, before being shot at the canalside just one week before the 1918 Armistice was declared.  Here also is the partially collapsed aqueduct causing the closure of the Sambre-Oise Canal - now to be made navigable again, at last. Well done for going on the protest - not such a common event in France, on canals, at least, but they are beginning to get the idea.

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1 hour ago, John Liley said:

 

This is the cellar in the house, now painted white, in which Wilfred Owen spent his final night with his comrades, before being shot at the canalside just one week before the 1918 Armistice was declared.  Here also is the partially collapsed aqueduct causing the closure of the Sambre-Oise Canal - now to be made navigable again, at last. Well done for going on the protest - not such a common event in France, on canals, at least, but they are beginning to get the idea.

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I see that after 15 years the canal is going to be open at last. The protest cruise was organised by a  Belgian and the group of local communes on the route who were campaigning to have the work done. The boats were a mixture of Belgians and British dba members and 2 French cruisers. It felt a bit of a cheek to be campaigning when we were visitors but everybody was pleased to see us .

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34 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

It felt a bit of a cheek to be campaigning when we were visitors but everybody was pleased to see us .

 

Di and I went with Bill and Laurel Cooper to the foundation meeting of the local group who were organising a campaign to get the canal reopened - the loss of tourism business they were suffering was a significant factor and we too were made very welcome.

 

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10 hours ago, Tam & Di said:

 

Di and I went with Bill and Laurel Cooper to the foundation meeting of the local group who were organising a campaign to get the canal reopened - the loss of tourism business they were suffering was a significant factor and we too were made very welcome.

 

Tam

I just had a look at the canal on Wikipaedia. The article mentions the funding and says that "the canal is expected to reopen in 2020". A bit of slippage, by the look of it.

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3 hours ago, Athy said:

I just had a look at the canal on Wikipaedia. The article mentions the funding and says that "the canal is expected to reopen in 2020". A bit of slippage, by the look of it.

The VNF closed the canal in 2006 because an aqueduct appeared to have subsided. They then put the squeeze on all the communes along the route to pay for the repair. There is only one major city Mauberge on the canal and they agreed to put up a considerable sum but in 2011 changed their minds and decided to spend the money on the zoo. (at least that’s what we were told) The remaining communes continued to campaign hence the protest cruise and eventually the region and vnf found the funds which by now were many times the original. The canal had silted up and overgrown and a swing bridge had seized up amongst other problems. Let’s hope it has been properly fixed as it’s a lovely route between Belgium and the Paris basin.

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2 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:

Is it the wharf near the lock? If so, it was the base from which Black Prince started their hire business with just two boats (Rodney and Nelson)  in 1976. 

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Top gates of Cosgrove Lock - junction with the old arm - the fishingteam are sitting down and Elaine, crossing the lockgate, has acquired a signpost on her head

 

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along the arm to the bridge being restored. And t'other end of Cosgrove lock Compare posting from this day 2020

 

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