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Thanks for the Belan photo..I have a first edition Nicholson guide that includes the entire closed section of the Monty. It mentions that, in the pound between the Belan locks, were the half-submerged remains of two barges that had been trapped after the breach and abandoned, one being a fly boat (The Berriew? not home at present to check).  Nice to see a  photo of what I assume is one of them.

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West Stockwith

River Trent / Chesterfield Canal

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Reception for the Mayor on centenary of the Women's Institute

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19 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2013

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spacer.pngDisused Heath Town Railway Bridge

Wyrley&Essington Canal

BCN

replaced by a reflective arch.

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This location is, or perhaps was, the Midlands version of Southall's Three Bridges. Heath Town railway bridge was the crossing over the canal of the former Midland Railway's branch from Castle Bromwich/Water Orton to Wolverhampton (most of which still survives as the Sutton Park line to Walsall). At the same spot though, the original Birmingham & Liverpool Railway - which became part of the L&NWR very early in it's existence - passes beneath the canal through Wednesfield Road tunnel.

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On this day in 2020

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Kirkthorpe Lock A&C The lock opened in 1702, the year the Aire & Calder Navigation reached Wakefield. The lock was probably 58-60 ft long, 14ft 6ins - 15ft wide and 3ft 6ins deep. It was rebuilt in 1815, to a width of 18ft. It became redundant in 1839.

Photos ©ChristineJohnstone  through Geograph   (#2)

 

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Springwell Farm Basin  GUsouth by Maple Lodge Sewage Treatment Works. Picture ©Mark Percy  via Geograph  Compare 3Feb2008

On a 24-acre site it serves 500,000 people with up to 300,000 cubic metres of wastewater per day. Sludge settled from the incoming sewage is treated by retention in enclosed heated anaerobic digestion tanks. A by-product of this process is methane gas which is burned to generate electricity. Cleaned effluent is discharged into the adjacent Grand Union Canal. In the shadow of the sewage works is the marina where one of the channels of the River Colne joins the canal.

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On [3Feb] in 2009

entrance to  Springwell Farm Basin

On 04/02/2021 at 10:52, David Mack said:

Is that what it's called? I've always known it by a more 'earthy' name!

 

 

 

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20 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2020

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Kirkthorpe Lock A&C The lock opened in 1702, the year the Aire & Calder Navigation reached Wakefield. The lock was probably 58-60 ft long, 14ft 6ins - 15ft wide and 3ft 6ins deep. It was rebuilt in 1815, to a width of 18ft. It became redundant in 1839.

Photos ©ChristineJohnstone  through Geograph   (#2)

 

The lock was certainly smaller than this when first built, possibly for boats about 55 feet long and 13 feet wide. The A&CN had to be improved in the 1770s to overcome the possibility of a Leeds & Selby Canal, and it was during this rebuilding that the locks were enlarged to L&LC standard. Below are plans showing the lock from a 1777c survey, and from 1826, when a further reconstruction was being arranged.I think the original opening to Wakefield was in 1704, but I was not around at the time. 

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