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Great pictures! It’s an amazing achievement that the whole canal was restored but 22 years later. I remember walking up to the bottom two “locks” from the Ashton in the early 80s. There seemed so little chance it would ever get done. It was a really bad mess. 
 

It may help anyone who moans about the HNC to consider that, look at these pictures and be thankful. 
 

Meanwhile yesterday 

 

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Saul junction and marina G&S. Stern end  of Banstead 

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12 hours ago, DandV said:

Thanks Peter for a lovely photo essay of the HNC prior to restoration.

10 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:

Great pictures! It’s an amazing achievement that the whole canal was restored but 22 years later. I remember walking up to the bottom two “locks” from the Ashton in the early 80s. There seemed so little chance it would ever get done. It was a really bad mess. It may help anyone who moans about the HNC to consider that, look at these pictures and be thankful. 

Yes thanks, another HNCpic from yesterday in 1979 ...

 

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Building-on-line at Stalybridge HNC

 

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Pipes crossing the canal: somewhere between Scout Tunnel and Stalybridge - and afaict no longer there ...

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spacer.pngI clearly recall yesterday-in-1979. We were living in Kingston-on-Thames at the time and staying with family in Leeds for the Bank Holiday weekend, we had a spare day and fine weather for an otherwise-unplanned outing. Canal addiction being what it is, we briefly contemplated finding the remains of the Dearn and Dove Canal, and then settled on a backpack with waterproofs and sandwiches, to set off for Huddersfield Narrow where we walked to the beginning of the continuous towingpath (having explored up to Lock 3 on a boattrip to Aspley Basin the year before).

 

It rained as we walked across Standedge Tunnel, which was helpful, and there was a rainbow while crossing the relative minnow of Scout Tunnel.

 

Twenty-odd miles from our start, HNC had replaced the Llangollen and PeakForest in my list of spectacular must-do canals, and sore feet argued against going further than the sunken boat on the Dukinfield pound, in favour of beer at the pub at Stalybridge Station and a train to Huddersfield.

 

The NiceMrGoogle has a briefly annotated version of the pictures, in the order of being taken here.

 

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HNC was always The  Impossible Restoration (#2)  (#3)  (#4) "without the foresight, persistence and organisation of a small number of volunteers who campaigned for and led the restoration from the very beginning, restoration would have [remained] impossible"

 

And as to  mildly moaning about the current state of the canal: the current navigation arrangements for Standedge Tunnel here say

"A limited number of passages have been released to allow customers to book ahead for the year. ... we have availability on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays  From the 3rd April [there are] 2 passages each way [on M,W,F]." The canal has been 'open' for over twenty years under BW/C&RT management and now allows six (return) navigation trips each week, and with winter closures etc that's a maximum of about 180/year. If that's a navigation service, then to (mis)quote Ian Hislop, I'm a banana. If the first twenty years doesn't bring a properly open-and-navigable canal, then when? _sigh_

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On this day in 1992

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Hazelhurst Junction Caldon C 

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and slightly earlier that day

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Hazelhurst aqueduct Caldon C Leek Branch / Main Line  Compare  12Sep1977 (#2) 2Nov1993   19Apr2004  12Sep2017 (#2)

 

 

 

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On this day in 1992

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Glascote Basin  Coventry Canal

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Tame Aqueduct Coventry Canal 

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On this day in 1992

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Anglesea Basin and  Chasewater Reservoir  W&E BCN  

 

TREASURE. The two ranging rods, the lifebuoy, the barrel, the crowbar and the rope were all recovered from the canal during the trip. When we returned the boat to base we left the extra lifebuoy aboard as a contribution to the boatyard: this much confused the inventory checker who was used to reporting a deficiency but not a surplus.

 

Compare  19Apr1973  21Apr2013  22Apr2013  9May2017   7Jul2018 (#2)  (#3)

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