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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

River Trent Gunthorpe

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1978

 

Old Turn Junction  BCN

Compare  21Aug1990  1Jun1998  (#2) 14Nov2002/14Nov2015  5May2003  5Aug2003  21Dec2003  8Jun2004  7Aug2005  6Dec2007  24Oct2009  14Nov2015  22Aug2016  (#2) 2Jul2018  1Jul2018  31Aug2019   12May2023/13May2023 and  Name-discussion15Nov2022

 

 

Oozells Street Loop BCN

 

 

Ladywood Junction,  Western end of Oozells Street Loop BCN Main Line Compare  7Apr1993  8May1999   2Jun1998 23Jul2002 (#2) 3Jul2005  22May2012  14Nov2015 8Aug2016  (#2)

 

 

Sandy Turn BCN  Main Line /  Icknield Port Road Wharf Loop Line  Compare 13Nov2015  14Nov2015  23Jun2002

 

 

 

 

Icknield Port Road Wharf Loop Line BCN  Compare   21Feb2007  1Jul2014(#3)  14Nov2015  19Aug2016  2May2021

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

Rotton Park Junction BCN   MainLine/ IcknieldSohoLoops  - Compare  13Nov2015  14Nov2015  23Sep2017   2May2021

 

 

 

 

 

Soho Loop BCN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winson Green Junction BCN Main Line  Compare  2Jun1992  23Dec2002  8Aug2011  14Nov2015  20Aug2016  (#2)

[David Mack]

9 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

 

 

Soho Loop BCN

About 1973, the little 17ft plywood cruiser I owned at the time was completely stopped by all the floating reeds on (what we always the knew of as) the Winson Green Loop. The tiny outboard motor my mother has acquired from a colleague was really only suitable for a dinghy and struggled to push the boat along at any speed in clear water, let alone the lesser-navigated sections of the BCN.

[PeterScott]

Today 2023

 

 

Springflower at North Landing, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire  Picture by © NeilTheasby 

Compare  3Dec2012 22Oct2020  (#2)  3Apr2022

 

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On this day in 1978

 

 

Sandiacre Junction  Erewash Canal and  (being restored) Derby Canal  

Compare  29Sep2013  20Aug2017  28Dec2019

 

 

 

 

Great Northern Basin Erewash Canal

Compare  11Nov1979  22Oct1995  5June2002  30Sep2013  27Aug2017  21Apr2019  (#2)

 

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

 

The end of the then connected-and-navigable section of the Ashby Canal

 

On 11/09/2021 at 13:06, David Mack said:

... Odd to see a lock gate on a lockless canal.

  

 

Pedantically, the Ashby Canal's wide Moira Lock  (currently detatched section) on 23Feb2023

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

Engine Arm Aqueduct 

Compare  11Apr1978 21Aug1990/21Aug2016   2Jun1992  23Jun2002  21Nov2003  8Aug2011 5Nov2013  13Nov2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

Galton Tunnel  BCN NewML Compare  2Jun1992 2May2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bromford Junction  BCN  MainLine / Spon Lane Locks Branch  

Compare 2Jun1992  15Jun1997 18Apr2001  27Dec2004   4Jul2005 20Oct2005  28Aug2008  27Sep2010  8Aug2011  13Nov 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spon Lane Junction BCN OldML/SponLane Locks Br  Compare   2Jun1992 22Jun2001 23Jun2002

 

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Stewart Aqueduct New/Old ML BCN   and an view along NewML  

Compare  20Jun1974  21Nov2003  8Jun2004   20Oct2005 28Aug2008  13Nov2015  23Sep2017   30Aug2019  3Jul2022  (#2)

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

 

Titford Pools BCN  Compare 3Jul2018

 

 

Titford Canal BCN

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goring Lock River Thames  Compare 21Mar2006

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1978

 

 

below Alrewas lock T&M:

Compare 8Jun1989   20Oct1995  27Jun2001  4Jan2003 (#2) (#3)  8Mar2003   7Aug2003  13Aug2003 14Sep2003 (#2)  13Jun2004  20Apr2010  17Jul2014  8May2015 12Jun2015  22Aug2017 6May2018 15Sep2018  12Oct2019 16Oct2021 26Mar2023

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesfield Junction and the Bentley Canal W+E BCN  

Compare 1Jun1992  22Jun2002

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

 

 

Factory Junction and Factory Locks BCN  Compare 30Aug1982

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

Ryders Green Junction BCN   Wendesbury Old Canal/Walsall Canal Compare 20Oct2005  6Jul2018

 

 

 

 

 

Walsall Canal Ryders Green Top Lock and looking down the empty flight  Compare 8Oct2011 

 

 

... and as far as we reached on the Ridgeacre Canal ...

 

 

... not looking too navigable after Black Lake Bridge ...

 

 

and the junction Webnesbury Old Canal / Ridgeacre Canal. No longer part of the connected system since cut off at Swan Bridge by the Birmingham North Relief Road. Use It Or Lose It ... Well, we tried ...

Edited September 12, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Dudley Port Junction BCN Main Line

 

 

 

 

Ryland Aqueduct

 

 

Edited September 12, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Deepfields Junction BCN Main Lne / (Wednesbury Oak Loop).   Compare 28Jun1999  11Oct2011

 

 

Failing to wind beyond Bradley Workshops (Wednesbury Oak Loop BCN)

Compare  20Aug1990  (#2) 4Aug1996  24Jun2001  16Feb2012 (#2) (#3) 24Sep2016   ##2016

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

Molesey Lock River Thames

 

 

 

Kingston Bridge River Thames  Compare 8Mar1980  12Sep1980 1Sep2006 14Sep2015  29Nov2019  (#2)

 

 

 

 

Teddington River Thames

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

Ogley Junction  W+E, BCN    Compare  31May1992  4May2003   28Mar2005  9Oct2005  10Oct2011  7Jul2018

 

 

 

 

 

Anglesea Basin and  Chasewater Reservoir  W&E BCN 

Compare  19Apr1973   31May1992   21Apr2013  22Apr2013  9May2017   7Jul2018 (#2)  (#3)

 

Clearing the prop on the W&E

[Dav and Pen]

On this day in 2006  on the R. Meuse we were on our way back to our winter mooring in Antwerp for what would be the last time as for various reasons we moored in France for the next 10 years.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

Malkins Bank Golf Course Arm T&M  

Compare  26Apr1980 1Oct2003 20Mar2007 21Sept2010  27Oct2014   11Oct2015  30Oct2016  9May2019  20Sep2021 

 

[Mike Todd]

15 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1979

 

 

Ogley Junction  W+E, BCN    Compare  31May1992  4May2003   28Mar2005  9Oct2005  10Oct2011  7Jul2018

 

 

 

 

 

Anglesea Basin and  Chasewater Reservoir  W&E BCN 

Compare  19Apr1973   31May1992   21Apr2013  22Apr2013  9May2017   7Jul2018 (#2)  (#3)

 

Clearing the prop on the W&E

In the last pic, how did you raise the stern?

[PeterScott]

3 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

... how did you raise the stern?

 

We had picked up a fencepost and associated fence on the prop, and of couse there was no weedhatch. As a ex-workingboat being used as a camping-hireboat, it was trimmed with minimum ballast, and this picture from earlier in the trip shows the counter was normally out of the water. There was a bit of a ledge on this bit of canal: some rocking-and pulling with ropes gave the angle, being  partly-grounded on the outside of the bend, and Elaine recalls carrying some of the engineroom ballast to the front of the boat. After a while, some of the crew set off to find more ballast (beer). The fence came off eventually ...

Edited September 13, 2023 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1979

 

 

 

 

 

 

M5 Aqueduct  Tame Valley BCN   Compare  6Apr1993 1Jun1998  20Oct2005   6Jul2018  8July2018

[Mike Todd]

3 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

We had picked up a fencepost and associated fence on the prop, and of couse there was no weedhatch. As a ex-workingboat being used as a camping-hireboat, it was trimmed with minimum ballast, and this picture from earlier in the trip shows the counter was normally out of the water. There was a bit of a ledge on this bit of canal: some rocking-and pulling with ropes gave the angle, being  partly-grounded on the outside of the bend, and Elaine recalls carrying some of the engineroom ballast to the front of the boat. After a while, some of the crew set off to find more ballast (beer). The fence came off eventually ...

Thanks - interesting. A year or so earlier than that and another family shared a hire boat and coming down Wolverhampton 21, we picked up a bundle of barbed wire. In those days, even hire boats did not have a weed hatch. However, shortly before that I had been instructed by Jack Monk on how to clear the prop which involved a very careful cilling, which we followed - thankfully without an upset. I think that we at least had something that would cut single wires.

 

It gives me the shakes  to look back at some of the common practices from those days!

[David Mack]

On 12/09/2023 at 13:27, PeterScott said:

and the junction Webnesbury Old Canal / Ridgeacre Canal. No longer part of the connected system since cut off at Swan Bridge by the Birmingham North Relief Road. Use It Or Lose It ... Well, we tried ...

It was the Black Country New Road, otherwise known as the Black Country Spine Road, which severed the Wednesbury Old Canal and cut off the Ridgeacre Branch.

The Birmingham Northern Relief Road is the route now known as the M6 Toll.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country_New_Road

Edited September 13, 2023 by David Mack