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PeterScott · August 10, 2020

On this day in 2017

Sheffield Basin

with a view of the Straddle Warehouse

on the day of a paddleboarding event: here a technique demonstration for those new to paddleboarding.

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Lizzie Carr, holding the paddle, was the first woman to paddleboard solo across the English channel.

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PeterScott · August 10, 2020

On this day in 2012

Macclesfield Canal Clarence Mill - Bridge No 26A

David Mack · August 10, 2020

Yesterday.

Sharing Lock 49 on the Rochdale Canal with some men at work.

Today.

Sharing Lock 76 on the Rochdale Canal with some fruit.

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PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 1984

River Humber

and a later version of the lightship

On 17/04/2014 at 08:33, Naughty Cal said:

Upper Whitton Lightship

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Dav and Pen · August 11, 2020

Today in 1999 there was a solar eclipse. We were in Leitrim village on the Shannon Erne link and there were a lot of people waiting to see it. However it clouded right over and there was only a very brief view of the sun and my photo is not worth seeing. These are 2 of the locks on the waterway instead.

Our Lister HA attracted some attention with quite a lot of people knowing the noise and coming to see

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PeterScott · August 11, 2020

1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

Today in 1999 there was a solar eclipse. We were in Leitrim village on the Shannon Erne link and there were a lot of people waiting to see it. However it clouded right over and there was only a very brief view of the sun ...

At the 1961 eclipse I was in the last year of primary school, and from the TV coverage I memorised the date of the next UK-visible toal eclipse, being the only UK total eclipse in my lifetime, and promised myself I would see it. Four of us on the train from Sheffield to Plymouth the previous afternoon, and woke to a cloudy forecast of what the Grauniad called 'the line of total disappointment'. A magical experience despite being able to see the corona (gosh a word with multiple meanings) only on a large public screen to our right on Plymouth Hoe. Didn't try any photographs at the time, and am entertained by all the flashphotos at the screen in this vid:

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1961 TV coverage link - from a 1999 BBC broadcast

PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 1984

River Humber. Amy Howson Compare #2154 (2013) #2610 (2016)

PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 2018

Worcester River Severn Compare #1827 (2008)

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PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 2018

Worcester and Birmingham Canal Sidbury Lock No 3 and the sign on the lock(/h?) beam

cuthound · August 11, 2020

On 09/08/2020 at 22:41, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2007

Rochdale Canal. A helper rescued therefrom

Presumably with the increase in mobile phones and consequent decrease in phone boxes, he cant be too choosey as to where he changes? ???

PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 2005

Braunston below Botton Lock GU South.

Installation of backpumping equipment.

Compare #2009 (2016)

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extra pic

PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 2019

Caen Hill flight K&A

PeterScott · August 11, 2020

On this day in 1984

Trent Falls - Rivers Ouse, Trent and Humber meet

Dav and Pen · August 11, 2020

This evening 2008. On our way back to our winter mooring at St Jean de Losne we stopped here for a couple of days. Pont d’Ouche where a Stone aqueduct carries the canal over the river. It used to be a hire boat base but due to annual water problems and probably all the locks putting hirers off there are no hire boats on the Saone side of the Burgundy canal. Run by a lovely English lady Bryonney at that time there was a cafe, small shop, and she brought bread every morning. The Sagar barge was owned by 2 very elderly but adventurous Americans whom we knew.