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Diggle portal Standedge Tunnel HNC and Diggle flight

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7 hours ago, gatekrash said:

This morning, lock 13 W&B.

 

There's just a higher quality of graffiti near Worcester!

 

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Reminds me of the old British Rail slogan of the 70's, "British Rail Is Travelling" to which I added "Very Slowly"... 🤣

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Leeds L&L

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Have these been officially abandoned (since 1985), or are they just out of use 'until further notice'? And was this a deliberate decision by BW, or did they fall into disuse as most boaters opted for the parallel single lock? Is there anything seriously wrong with them apart from a lack of paint and some silting?

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13 hours ago, David Mack said:

Have these been officially abandoned (since 1985), or are they just out of use 'until further notice'? And was this a deliberate decision by BW, or did they fall into disuse as most boaters opted for the parallel single lock? Is there anything seriously wrong with them apart from a lack of paint and some silting?

I don't know the answer but, as one of the few people to have used them, they were only half heartedly restored - no ground paddles for example. I think new gates were fitted, the canal dredged and then they stayed open until lack of maintenance closed them again. 

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18 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On [23May] in 2019  Appley Locks L&L. ... The offside (later, once restored and now derelict) two-locks parallel the single lock on the main line 

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15 hours ago, David Mack said:

Have these been officially abandoned (since 1985), or are they just out of use 'until further notice'? And was this a deliberate decision by BW, or did they fall into disuse as most boaters opted for the parallel single lock? Is there anything seriously wrong with them apart from a lack of paint and some silting?

1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:

I don't know the answer but, as one of the few people to have used them, they were only half heartedly restored - no ground paddles for example. I think new gates were fitted, the canal dredged and then they stayed open until lack of maintenance closed them again. 

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[pic from 27May2019] Opened for a while 1983(?), and then derelict again. It would be interesting to look up the magazine coverage of the opening and the restoration. I can find nothing in WW or IWA's Bulletin, so the best account I have is a brief discussion with a (grumpy) BW chap who said the middle pound leaked and that had never been fixed by the 'locals' who organised the restoration. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

I don't know the answer but, as one of the few people to have used them, they were only half heartedly restored - no ground paddles for example. I think new gates were fitted, the canal dredged and then they stayed open until lack of maintenance closed them again. 

We have also been through them

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42 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

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[pic from 27May2019] Opened for a while 1983(?), and then derelict again. It would be interesting to look up the magazine coverage of the opening and the restoration. I can find nothing in WW or IWA's Bulletin, so the best account I have is a brief discussion with a (grumpy) BW chap who said the middle pound leaked and that had never been fixed by the 'locals' who organised the restoration. 

 

 

 

Apologies for taking the thread off topic. It was certainly pre-1984 when they opened. 
 

Mum grew up in Appley Bridge, and her parents and her sister continued to live there after mum left and married dad. As a young child the locks were derelict and I would play in the dry pound between them. The top lock was full IIRC correctly. once I was a teenager (I turned 13 in 1979) we would take our boat out, launch it at Parbold and cruise up to Appley Bridge, after a while we would leave mum with her sister and her mother (my grandma)  and dad and I would take the boat back, retrieve it and drive back to Appley Bridge to get mum. On one occasion to our delight we found the shallow locks in working order and went through them, we subsequently did this a few times, usually returning down the deep lock. I don't know why we stopped, things change, perhaps grandma was less well and it wasn't appropriate for Dad and I to gallivant, perhaps mum started visiting alone - I can't remember. 

 

I know it was pre-1984 because on the first trip (and possibly all of them)  (a) I couldn't drive a car and ( b) I wasn't at university - both these changes happened in 1984.  

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On this day 2011

Special delivery at Burton Waters

 

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14 hours ago, PeterScott said:

Today 2022

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Looking across Beadnell Bay out to the North Sea horizon, Northumberland from Ebb’s Nook  

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We are up that way later in the year. We will be staying at Beadnell as well as Amble and Bamburgh.

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9 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

 

We are up that way later in the year. We will be staying at Beadnell as well as Amble and Bamburgh.

 

You will love it, although we dont live that far away we dont visit Northumberland often enough. Some fantastic beaches for the pooch to enjoy. Warkworth is worth a visit too.

 

(Just dont do what I did last year and forget to pay your Tyne Tunnel toll by 10 minutes after the deadline. Expensive mistake).

 

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3 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

 

You will love it, although we dont live that far away we dont visit Northumberland often enough. Some fantastic beaches for the pooch to enjoy. Warkworth is worth a visit too.

 

(Just dont do what I did last year and forget to pay your Tyne Tunnel toll by 10 minutes after the deadline. Expensive mistake).

 

Nearly did that last year on our way back down from Scotland. We had called in at Tynemouth for a nights stop over. 

 

Will pay it straight away next time!

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1 minute ago, Naughty Cal said:

Nearly did that last year on our way back down from Scotland. We had called in at Tynemouth for a nights stop over. 

 

Will pay it straight away next time!

 

I got stung twice. Went down to Morrisons carpark at the tunnel to rendezvous with my daughter to pick up granddaughter to take her back to the caravan for a few days. Forgot to pay for both journeys, that'll be 60 quid sir, thank-you very much.

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