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

[Hudds Lad]

Where's Judas Priest Bridge then? or Napalm Death Bridge?

[PeterScott]

Yestreday morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HS2 wprks ...

new M42 bridge not yet connected to anything ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curdworth Locks;  B+F ... bollard; damp rowingpath; and an environmental response?

 

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Edited March 14 by PeterScott
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[Mike Todd]

3 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

Is that a Brexit benefit? That the sign can be altered to show distances in miles?

Sadly for conspiracy speculators, it pre-dates Brexit - see here from 2016

 

and a less clear one from 2008 when it seems that central Brum had yet to de-metricate whilst the rest had returned to the main stream!

 

 

Edited March 14 by Mike Todd

[PeterScott]

5 hours ago, PeterScott said:

[13Mar] 2024

 

Black Sabbath Bridge BCN

 

 

5 hours ago, cuthound said:

...why CRT didn't name one of the many heavy metal bridges like this one as the Black Sabbath Bridge rather than a brick one.

 

4 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

...but it seems it was important to place the Bench on Broad Street, the Birmingham Walk of Stars,

And I don’t think CRT had much to do with it other than accept it and of course appear for the opening and grab some limelight,

here’s good link to the bench: https://blacksabbathbench.co.uk

This afternoon 2024

... and only having seen it from the canal, I walked around for a current view from Broad Street:

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of police but no branding on the bench ...

 

 

Looking from Black Sabbath Bridge  towards Old Turn Junction BCN

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

55 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

 

The etchings have gone, I wonder if it’s been vandalised and they’ve had to remove them?

[PeterScott]

This morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salvage Turn   by the Mailbox  (W&B)

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[BoatinglifeupNorth]

@PeterScott seems to have a faster way to get around the Canals and county than most.

 Maybe the Thread should be retitled “On this day in my time Machine” or “zipping around the Country in my McLaren Formula One car”😂 Any professional Photographer’s on here that can give him some tips on how to take a photo? 📸📸

Edited March 14 by BoatinglifeupNorth

[PeterScott]

12 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:

... Any professional Photographer’s on here that can give him some tips on how to take a photo?...

  Any professional Greengrocer's on here who can give some tip's on apostrophe's?

 

=============================================

 

A few hours earlier 2024  Talacre lighthouse, Flintshire, Wales.   Picture by ©  JohnSTurner

 

 

Edited March 15 by PeterScott
My greengrocer was a retired lighthousekeeper

[Rob-M]

9 hours ago, PeterScott said:

This morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salvage Turn   by the Mailbox  (W&B)

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I see the new boom is in place, I wasn't quite sure where it was exactly going.  Been put in to stop the rubbish collecting outside the mail box.

[ditchcrawler]

11 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

The etchings have gone, I wonder if it’s been vandalised and they’ve had to remove them?

Nice Indian restaurant right behind where Peter is standing  

[cuthound]

12 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

The etchings have gone, I wonder if it’s been vandalised and they’ve had to remove them?

 

Sad to see whatever the reason. The bench is just a bench now. 

[Ronaldo47]

Taken by a souvenir hunter?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridgewater Canal Castlefield Manchester 

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[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

13 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

The etchings have gone, I wonder if it’s been vandalised and they’ve had to remove them?

good news;

 

https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-struggle-to-shift-black-sabbath-bench-proves-it-really-is-heavy-metal

[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladywood Junction,  Western end of Oozells Street Loop BCN and Main Line

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Oozells Street Loop BCN  Compare  7Apr1993  8May1999   2Jun1998 23Jul2002 (#2) 27Dec2004  3Jul2005  22May2012  14Nov2015 8Aug2016  (#2) 23Dec2022

 

Main Line by the Arena

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

19 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:

@PeterScott seems to have a faster way to get around the Canals and county than most.

 Maybe the Thread should be retitled “On this day in my time Machine” or “zipping around the Country in my McLaren Formula One car”😂 Any professional Photographer’s on here that can give him some tips on how to take a photo? 📸📸

None of us have to look if we don’t want to,

but if it encourages people to get out and boat it’s all good stuff,

here’s a photo from a year ago, under Spaghetti Junction.

 

 

[PeterScott]

10 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

Nice Indian restaurant right behind where Peter is standing  [Broad Street BCN]

 

Barajee. Thanks for the recommendation: we hadn't tried them before and it was an excellent curry, neatly served, and well worth a return visit. We were early in the evening, and they set a canal-view table for us:

 

 

 

and Black Sabbath bridge from the window on t'other side

 

 

 

 

From Gas Street Basin towingpath, the restaurant is the lighted windows on the second floor above Broad Street Tunnel

 

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2014

Pub day

 

[ditchcrawler]

2017 can't remember where 

[PeterScott]

This afternoon 2024

 

 

New water for Copperkins ...

 

near which there is new cladding being attached to the orange building ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cape Arm  BCN Main Line  

The guillotine gate at the far end of the embankment tunnel - frame visible in photo #3 - seems to have been removed or finally disintegrated in early 2023

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Edited March 16 by PeterScott
new pics

[PeterScott]

This morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotton Park Junction BCN   MainLine/ IcknieldSohoLoops  -

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Edited March 17 by PeterScott
extra pics

[PeterScott]

This morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

new bridges Soho Loop BCN - #2 is an extra bridge alongside Spring Hill Bridge

Edited March 17 by PeterScott
added pictures

[ditchcrawler]

6 hours ago, PeterScott said:

This afternoon 2024

 

 

New water for Copperkins ...

 

near which there is new cladding being attached to the orange building ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cape Arm BCN

I did wonder about creeping through there but was past before I realised 

[PeterScott]

This morning 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and more tradionally, just around the corner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Icknield Port Road Wharf Loop Line

 

Sandy Turn BCN  Main Line /  Icknield Port Road Wharf Loop Line  and around the Loop

 

Compare  11Sep1978 13Nov2015  14Nov2015  23Jun2002

 

Edited March 16 by PeterScott

[ditchcrawler]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

This morning 2024

 

 

And they are planning more homes the other side of the bridge