Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2015

Oban

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

remains of  Harborne Branch Railway Bridge  BCN Main Line   Compare  3Jul2005/3Jul2018  21Feb2007  13Nov2015  23Sep2017    and as an operational railway

 

and Rotton Park Junction BCN 

Compare  13Nov2015  14Nov2015  23Sep2017 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olympic Waterways London

 

Carpenters Road Lock Bow Back Rivers   

Compare  3March1980  5Sep2006 1Jun2016   13Sep2017 (#2) 3May2019

Edited May 3, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Mill Lock  Bow Back Rivers.

Compare 3Mar1980   16Sep2010  3May2019

Edited May 4, 2023 by PeterScott
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[Scholar Gypsy]

8 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2019

City Mill Lock  Bow Back Rivers.

Compare 3Mar1980   16Sep2010  3May2019

I had some fun being a lockkeeper there last week ...

https://scholargypsy.org.uk/2023/04/30/city-mill-lock-bow-and-deptford-creeks-to-limehouse/

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

around Woodham Lock No 2 Basingstoke C 

 

The ranger is manipulating the woodchips thrown in to seal the gates and maintain waterlevel above the lock. As they did each day at each lock after the passing of the last boat booked that day.

 

Compare  10Feb1980  15Mar1981   29Apr2006

[Jen-in-Wellies]

5 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

around Woodham Lock No 2 Basingstoke C 

 

The ranger is manipulating the woodchips thrown in to seal the gates and maintain waterlevel above the lock. As they did each day at each lock after the passing of the last boat booked that day.

 

Ealth'n'Safety. We've heard of it.😀

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1981

 

 

 

 

 

 

Berwick Tunnel ShrewsburyC

[DandV]

9 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City Mill Lock  Bow Back Rivers.

Compare 3Mar1980   16Sep2010  3May2019

Sorry to have missed out on the SPCC trips through those waterways as I worked in a building bounded by Marshgate Lane, BR London Eastern Region,  the northern outfall sewer line, and The City Mill River, for a year in 1975.  The Docklands Railway now covers part of the site.

Not the most scenic part of London but not short of "character". Nor was the workplace, The mechanical engineering and aeronautical workshops and wind tunnel for Queen Mary College. 

About 10 years later the factory across the road featured on an episode of The Duty Men when Customs intercepted container loads of smuggled cigarettes.

One of our staff had an ex Woolwich munitions barge moored up along side the Queen Mary College Nuclear laboratory, demolished and decontaminated to build the Olympic Stadium. 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1981

 

 

 

 

 

Longdon-upon-Tern Aqueduct   ShrewsburyC  Compare 4May1981

[Dav and Pen]

Today in 2010 very pleased to pay for this chap.

[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huddlesford Junction CoventryC 

 

Compare  25Jun1979  24Oct1995 19Dec1999/19Dec2016  9Apr2002   11Mar2003  2Oct2004  19Apr2013  30Nov2013  (#2)  16Jan2015  17Jan2015  (#2)  (#3)  11Nov2015  (#2)  17Feb2017  22Sep2017 (#2)  25Mar2019  (#2)  25Mar2019/25Mar22/25ar23  28Mar2019  1Aug2020  30Apr2021  6May2021  30Oct2021  25Mar2022  26Jul2022 25Sep2022

 

 

and coronation enthusiasm at Streethay Wharf

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

Just now 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glascote Basin and locks Coventry Canal

Compare  25Jun1979/22Jul1976  10April2002  9Aug2005 27Sep2006   31Oct2006   13Jul2008  8Oct2013  6Nov2014  15Jul2015  4Oct2017  2Aug2020  13Jul2021  22Jul2021  3Aug2021   10Sep2022

[PeterScott]

Today 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Celebrities on the Coventry Canal.

... generated a crew-conversation about whether we still have enough energy for the BCN Challenge? @Captain Pegg

[PeterScott]

This evening 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawkesbury Junction  CoventryC/OxfordC. A fading cat.

Compare prewar  #1950s  #1953   #1960s  9Jul1971  17Jul1976  23Jul1976 (#2)  24Jun1978   #1979  9Jun1989 (#2)  3Apr1993  2Nov1996  25Dec1996  28Mar1998  10Apr2002  11Apr2002  29Jun2003  10Sep2003  10Aug2005 15Nov2005 (#2)   16Dec2005 18Dec2005   25Sep2006  28Sep2006  1Nov2006   13Jul2008  23May2011 (#2) 3Aug2011  4Aug2011  6Oct2013 17Aug2014   4Jul2015  17Aug2016   6Sep2017  (#2) 21Sep2018   4Sep2019  3Aug2020 (#2)  5Aug2020  19Dec2021 (#2)  6Jul2022  23Jul2022  24Jul2022  9Sep2022

and towards Rugby...

 

 

 

 

Edited May 5, 2023 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

  

On 10/08/2022 at 10:26, Captain Pegg said:

I noticed when passing under it the other week that the towpath bridge at Marston Junction is numbered as a side bridge of the Coventry Canal. Does this mean the theoretical junction is actually a few yards in to the Ashby channel?...

 

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marston Junction  Ashby/North Oxford  Compare 29Jun2003  20Mar2005   10Aug2005  28Jun2019

Marston Bridge 15

Yes it's a new post-number since we last passed this way. I suppose the first bridge along the Ashby is Bridge 1 and a bridge zero or 1a or 0a might all be confusing ...

[PeterScott]

This morning 2023

 

 

 

 

Wyken Arm  NOxford. 

 Compare 14Aug2014/14Aug2016  17Aug2016  7Nov2020

 

 

 

 

Long To Rain Over Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stretton Stop  and Stretton Arm OxfordC 

 

Compare  13Mar1993  10Aug2005   15Nov2005   18Dec2005  (#2) 28Sep2006  8Nov2008  7Jun2016  4Sep2019  22Jul2022  9Sep2022  26Apr2023

 

Edited May 6, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Braunston Turn  Northern Oxford / GU 

Compare  12Jul1974  28May1975  11Jun1988  28Jul1994   2May1997  11Aug2005  14Nov2005  16Nov2005   25Nov2005  17Dec2005  2Nov2006  1Feb2007  7Nov2008  8Nov2008   9Nov2008  5Feb2009  17May2010   4Mar2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Braunston Marina GUSouth.

Compare  5Nov1978 4Feb2001  2Feb2002 8Feb2004  6Feb2005  2Feb2006 (#2) 3Feb2006  4Feb2006  5Feb2006  31Jan2007  1Feb2007   4Feb2007  8Feb2007 1Feb2008   5Feb2009   7Feb2009  8Feb2009 (#2) (#3)  19Mar2011  23Jun2018  9Sep2022   31Oct2022 28Nov2022  5Feb2023  6Feb2023

 

 

and flooded fields hereabouts

 

 

[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weedon Military Dock GU South  GU South  (#1) pond left by housing developers - part of the old entrance canal. Compare 30Jun2019  (#2)  21Aug2022  and the (old) entrance to the arm

[PeterScott]

This morning 2023

 

Braunston Ladder Bridge  (no longer to be replaced by step-free bridge) Compare  11Aug2005   6Feb2009  27Jun2009  19Mar2011  24May2011   20Sep2018 

 

 

 

Braunston Pumping Station  Compare 19Mar2011

 

 

 

 

tug Mouse  Compare earlier Mouses and here

 

 

 

 

Braunston Locks towingpath ground paddle. Estmated to be fixed by yesterday (so it said on the label)

 

 

 

moored

 

 

 

 

Braunston Tunnel southern portal

 

[Naughty Cal]

Yesterday, 2023

Robin Hoods Bay 

 

 

 

 

 

[jpcdriver]

Yesterday 2023 (today is a bit soggy in comparison)

Sprotbrough, S&SYN

[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blisworth Tunnel GU. 

Compare  18Sep1980  11Jul2015 18Jun2015

Edited May 8, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wolverton Aqueduct  GUSouth

Compare  ~1970  18Sep1980  7Jun2005  12Aug2005   3Sep2005   11Oct2008  5Sep2010  13Aug2010  11Jul2015  15Aug2016 (#2) 17Jun2017   5Oct2018  19Aug2021 

 

Edited May 8, 2023 by PeterScott
extra pics

[PeterScott]

This evening 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridge 1   Old Stratford (Buckingham) Arm   GU   Compare  4Apr2018  (#2)   22Apr2019   19Aug2021