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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

Torksey

[TheBiscuits]

Today, as far as you can get into Preston on the Lancaster Canal.

 

It's only a few hundred yards past Ashton Basin, but it's navigable, slowly!

 

[Cas446]

Bridge 5 Llangollen, now.

 

[PeterScott]

Coventry C yesterday evening

[PeterScott]

On this day 2012

Upper Avon. Swan. Not pleased.

[PeterScott]

On this day 2018

River Tyne. Central Newcastle's seven bridges

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Atherstone flight CoventryC. Bridge. Or perhaps not.

[PeterScott]

On this day 2005

Docks, Liverpool. Before the Link was built

Compare  #1972 (2009) #1287 (2012 and earlier) #1279 (2019)

[PeterScott]

On this day 2012

Colin P Witter Lock Upper Avon

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Newark River Trent - The Castle and the Town Lock

[George and Dragon]

14 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day 2012

Colin P Witter Lock Upper Avon

If I was a betting man I'd say that steelwork is there to stop the lock collapsing.

 

Though it could just be a pergola

 

 

Edited August 2, 2020 by George and Dragon
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[Rob-M]

Just now, George and Dragon said:

If I was a betting man I say that steelwork is there to stop the lock collapsing.

 

Though it could just be a pergola

It's to bang your head on when stood on the roof whilst boat is rising, seen it happen to s few people.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Tarleton. Ducks.

[PeterScott]

13 minutes ago, George and Dragon said:

If I was a betting man I'd say that steelwork is there to stop the lock collapsing. Though it could just be a pergola

11 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

It's to bang your head on when stood on the roof whilst boat is rising, seen it happen to s few people.

Apocryphally (?) described by a lady councillor as "Mr Hutchings' monstrous erection in the park." the official line is that its depth and the unstable nature of the ground (silt pit) made it the most difficult of the Upper Avon loks to build, which accounts for the unusual girders used to stabilise the structure. So yes, to stop it collapsing.
 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Tarleton Rufford Branch L&L and Ribble Link Awaiting the incoming tide

 

 

And using some oomph when it did

 

 

Compare  #1152 (1977) #662  (and later posts that day 2009) #1195

Edited August 2, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Moored / stranded on the Ribble Link.  Near Here:

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

Yorkshire Has Some Straight and Wide Waterways.  And So To Bed

 

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2018. Last pint on the Broads at Sutton Staithe Hotel while waiting for our transport back to Lincoln. We used the slipway at Sutton Marina.

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

16 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2016

 

Moored / stranded on the Ribble Link.  Near Here:

 

 

 

And that's precisely why the skipper's guide for the Ribble estuary insists you mustn't cut the corner there!

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Oxford Canal. South of Rugby.  Canoeist in a Top Hat. As You Do

[Chris Lowe]

Tenby Harbour 2018

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

Today 2020. Useful information and advice on a noticeboard by a lock ...

 

... by Sutton Stop Lock at Hawkesbury Junction, as it happens.

 

It is of course a narrow lock, so sharing it with another boat (for us anyway) means waiting the half-hour for a boat-less-than-ten-foot to arrive. And when it gets here, the watersaving is about 24 metres (length) by two point one (width)  by (about) zero point one metres (depth). To a quick approximation, that's around five cubic metres (or five thousand litres),and the sign says that saves a thousand bathsl of water. Each bathful is therefore five litres (or one gallon in old money). Small baths in this part of the world. Tempting (but resisted) to ring them to discuss Rugby's size-of-bath ...

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Hawkesbury Junction bridge. The cat is fading away.

Compare #2388 (2015)  #1651  (2009) #424 (2002)

Edited August 3, 2020 by PeterScott
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[Guest]

On 02/08/2020 at 18:31, PeterScott said:

On this day 2018

River Tyne. Central Newcastle's seven bridges

Thats a very well taken photo.

 

I swore I only could see six but then clocked a glimpse of the 'blinking eye'.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

Liverpool Stanley Ferry Locks Branch Junction L&L