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Fradley Junction

T&M/Coventry

 

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[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2014

Autumn colours at Burton Waters

 

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On this day in 1991

 

Barbridge Junction SU

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On this day in 1992

 

 

 

 

 

Wigan flight L&L  and Top Lock Compare 23Apr2004

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On this day in 1992

 

 

 

 

 

Worsley

Leigh Branch

Bridgewater Canal

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On this day in 1998

 

Old Main Line BCN before scaffolding

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Red Bull Lock No 42 T&M

steps to lock island

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Pool Lock Aqueduct  T&M

 

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Crane at Red Bull T&M

 

and Water Under The Bridge

 

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On this day in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound of Mull, 

Loch Linnhe

 

Corran Ferry

 

 

 

 

Ballachulish Bridge Loch Leven

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On this day in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corpach     Caledonian Canal   Compare  17Oct2014   18Oct2014   

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2012

A spattering of snow in Lincoln

 

 

On this day 2019

High water on the Fossdyke

 

 

 

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On this day in 1991

 

Wrenbury Llangollen Canal  Compare  30Oct1991  30May1994  19Sep2003  28Mar2017   2Apr2017

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On this day in 1992

 

 

 

 

Looking across the Walton Summit branch to Johnson's Hillock Bottom Lock  Compare 24Apr2004    17Jun2007

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1992

 

 

Brewery Bridge No 102

Blackburn

L&L

Asda

 

The cars in the pictures are parked on what-was-once the toe of the L&L embankment, which in the previous year the store-builders took away, to the consternation of BW who were concerned that their embankment might fall down, so closed the canal  ...

 

... just at the time we had organised to take two hireboats from Middlewich for a fortnight around the T&M, (tidal) Trent, S&SYN to Sheffield, and then return to Middlewhich via L&L. So we had to return from Sheffield the way we had come ...

 

[David Mack]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1992

Brewery Bridge No 102

Blackburn

L&L

Asda

 

The cars in the pictures are parked on what-was-once the toe of the L&L embankment, which in the previous year the store-builders took away, to the consternation of BW who were concerned that their embankment might fall down, so closed the canal  ...

 

I'm pretty sure that Blackburn closure was in 1990, as in the September we were on a first wedding anniversary trip and unable to go through Blackburn.

[PeterScott]

3 hours ago, David Mack said:

I'm pretty sure that Blackburn closure was in 1990, as in the September we were on a first wedding anniversary trip and unable to go through Blackburn.

Here we are at Sprotbrough on 1June1991 on our way to Sheffield, where we turned around and retraced our steps to Keadby, Newark and up the T&M to Middlewich.

 

The Blackburn stoppage on the L&L which was the cause of our return this way is first mentioned in Waterways World as "Br 102A to Blackburn Top Lock" in the May1991 edition, with a phone number for enquiries, but no end date. This is repeated in the June and July editions. In August1991 the same details are said to be "ufn" and this was repeated in September. In October 1991 it was "until March 1992" and this was repeated in November, December and January1992. In February 1992 it was said to be "until April" and in March1992 "until mid-May". In April1992 it was "until 18th May" and this was repeated in the May edition. There was no mention in June1992 or later, so we can assume the canal did reopen in 18May1992.

 

In February1990 WW, there is mention of a Blackburn Locks stoppage "until 18 Mar" and this is repeated in the March edition. In April 1990 to October 1990 inclusive, there are no  stoppages detailed on the L&L main line, although there was one on the Rufford Branch until June 1990. Short-duration emergency stoppages, of course, never made it to WW's "What's On" pages. 

[Pluto]

4 hours ago, David Mack said:

I'm pretty sure that Blackburn closure was in 1990, as in the September we were on a first wedding anniversary trip and unable to go through Blackburn.

It took well over a year for the slip to be repaired as they were arguing over who was responsible. BW finally contacted me, and I was able to show that there had been major excavation work done when the ASDA store was being built, and it was that which caused the slip. The first photo shows the site after the slip, with the towpath wall collapsed. The second shows an earlier slip on the other side of the canal in 1954, but it also shows the original level of ground on the towpath side, before excavation by the builders of the ASDA store caused a stoppage.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1991

 

 

 

 

Grindley Brook Llangollen Canal.  Following another boat up the staircase, which it was doing in reverse. 

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Aston Flight BCN: an empty pound above the second lock from the bottom of the flight Compare 23Sep2017

 

 

Turn left at the road crossing. Compare 24Jul2002

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

 

Malkins Bank Golf Course Arm T&M   Compare 1Oct2003  21Sept2010  11Oct2015  20Sep2021 

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, PeterScott said:

Here we are at Sprotbrough on 1June1991 on our way to Sheffield, where we turned around and retraced our steps to Keadby, Newark and up the T&M to Middlewich.

 

The Blackburn stoppage on the L&L which was the cause of our return this way is first mentioned in Waterways World as "Br 102A to Blackburn Top Lock" in the May1991 edition, with a phone number for enquiries, but no end date. This is repeated in the June and July editions. In August1991 the same details are said to be "ufn" and this was repeated in September. In October 1991 it was "until March 1992" and this was repeated in November, December and January1992. In February 1992 it was said to be "until April" and in March1992 "until mid-May". In April1992 it was "until 18th May" and this was repeated in the May edition. There was no mention in June1992 or later, so we can assume the canal did reopen in 18May1992.

 

In February1990 WW, there is mention of a Blackburn Locks stoppage "until 18 Mar" and this is repeated in the March edition. In April 1990 to October 1990 inclusive, there are no  stoppages detailed on the L&L main line, although there was one on the Rufford Branch until June 1990. Short-duration emergency stoppages, of course, never made it to WW's "What's On" pages. 

 

Apologies Peter, it seems you are right. The bank slipped in March 1991.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6208682.5-years-ago-canal-bank-shifts/

 

Must have been another stoppage at Blackburn that stopped us. We were on a Shire Cruisers one way truip from Burnley to Sowerby Bridge, and set off in the 'wrong direction' intending to visit Blackburn before turning and heading east on the L&L, but in the end we only got part way there. Having looked at the map we could have got to Eanam Wharf even with the canal closed alongside Asda, so I guess the stoppage was somewhere to the east. 

 

[PeterScott]

3 hours ago, Pluto said:

It took well over a year for the slip to be repaired as they were arguing over who was responsible. 

1 hour ago, David Mack said:

... The bank slipped in March 1991.  https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6208682.5-years-ago-canal-bank-shifts/   Must have been another stoppage at Blackburn that stopped us [in 1990]. 

4 hours ago, PeterScott said:

The Blackburn stoppage on the L&L ... is first mentioned in Waterways World as "Br 102A to Blackburn Top Lock" in the May1991 edition, with a phone number for enquiries, but no end date. This is repeated in the June and July editions. In August1991 the same details are said to be "ufn" and this was repeated in September. In October 1991 it was "until March 1992" and this was repeated in November, December and January1992. In February 1992 it was said to be "until April" and in March1992 "until mid-May". In April1992 it was "until 18th May" and this was repeated in the May edition. There was no mention in June1992 or later, so we can assume the canal did reopen in 18May1992.

 

Brilliant to bring together all these resources about a (cosmically) small incident thirty years ago.  I always enjoy having a reason to open the old Waterways Worlds, ...

... which always seem to be more interesting to browse than the more recent A4 volumes. It's probably my age ...

 

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On this day in 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maidstone

 

River Medway

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On this day in 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backs, Cambridge River Cam

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On this day in 2013

 

Brown Bailey Bridge Sheffield S&SYN

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T&M Sandbach