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On this day in 2017

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Friendship at Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. Ben with Rose and Joe Skinner: Ben recalls meeting them at Hawkesbury in 1972 while on a journey across the network on his converted rowingboat Dondevoy. The contemporaneous diary The Cruise of the Dondevoy is here and the first meeting with the Skinners here: 'On passing through Sutton Stop again, I found that a mud boat was blocking my way. Fearing that it had been put there purposely to stop navigation, I walked back along the towpath to enquire. There I met an elderly man sitting by the water splitting a log of wood with a hammer and chisel. Instinctively, I knew who it was - Joe Skinner, about whom I had heard and read so much. I stopped and helped him. Joe Skinner is very well known, having been a working boatman, with his wife Rose, but nowhere do I remember a description of the man himself or his character, most people seem to use him as a walking archive of things past: "Joe Skinner remembers when..." etc., ignoring his amazing personality. He accepted my help with thanks, casting no remarks about my long hair, and advised me to move the mud boat myself. His eyes twinkle, and every now and again he makes a sudden blink as if to say "Listen to me", or to emphasise some point he had just made. Joe helped me move the mud boat, and I was off on my way "home" to Coventry'

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On this day in 2017

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Ellesmere Port Museum

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#Jun1976 

21Jun1984    

22Jun1984  

27Nov1994 (#2) (#3) 

23Aug1998

31Oct2007 (#2) 

28Nov2007 (#2)  (#3)  (#4)  (#5)

8Mar2008

28Oct2014 

29Oct2014  

4Apr2017  (#2) 

5Apr2017  (#2)

 

 

 

 

 

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On this day in 1977

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5Apr1977

5Apr1977/22Jun2009

4Sep1985

3Aug2005 (#2)

22Jun2009 

 

Stanley Dock Branch and Stanley Dock and Salisbury Lock Liverpool

 

Recently fenced-off the filled-in section within the Tate&Lyle's factory. Became Eldonian Basin

Paddle, Stanley Dock Branch lock, and descending a lock

Regent Road Bascule Bridge from Salisbury Dock and then Stanley Dock

Victoria Tower

 

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On this day in 2006

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Slaithwaite HNC, below the town centre:, Lock21E , Original site of 21E, towards 20E

Compare  26May1979/23May2020  3Jan2000   3Jan2000/17May2001   19May2001    23May2008 (last pic)  25Jul2009   6Apr2010  22Jul2011 3Feb2022

 

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On this day in 2010

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Diggle flight  HNC

and Diggle portal

Standedge Tunnel HNC

including some public art

 

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17Apr1979 

10Jan1987 

3Apr2006 (#2)

21May2008 

26May2008 

22May2008 

15Oct2008 

19Jul2011 

11Jul2014 

2Oct2016 (#2)

16Apr2016 

3Oct2016

12Mar2022

 

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On 03/04/2022 at 16:19, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2002

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Our return to the T&M, on the Anderton Lift's reopening weekend, had been delayed by a pump failure. 

 

The Lift was still being worked-on as a construction site, so when operational again, it was only BW staff who were allowed to be on the boats. Compensation, though, was that Copperkins used the West caisson, which had, since restoration only been operated with its water. And as our bow was out first, we decided that we were the first boat since restoration to use that caisson ...

 

 

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Anderton Lift T&M

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@ange Have you seen these pictures of Iona before?

 

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25 minutes ago, Richard T said:

@ange Have you seen these pictures of Iona before?

 

No, I haven't seen these before - thank you. We bought Iona in 2008 so it was a few years before. Interesting to see her with Copperkins @haggis

Thank you Richard 🙂

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On this day in 2008

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Anderton Lift T&M

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3July1976  

9Jul1976 (#2)  

29Apr1980  

23May1992   

16Aug1998  

26Aug1998 (#2)  

20Nov2001   

30Mar2002   

3Apr2002

24May2004  

6Apr2008     

22Dec2011  

5Apr2012  

18Dec2013  (#2) 

4Jun2019  

5Jun2019    

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