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2015, looking down from Lothersdale to the L&LC, which is just behind the white building to the left of the engine house. The Rochdale Canal had a plan to build a branch from Todmorden, via Colne, to the L&LC here. The summit level would have been about 800 feet above sea level, with a two mile long tunnel and over 450 feet of lockage down to the L&LC.

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19 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2015

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Fort Augustus 

 

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Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, Caledonian Canal  Compare #3798 (2014)  #1569 (2015) #1566 (2017) #1697  #1690 

There is the worst takeaway in the UK at the foot of the locks there at Fort Augustus. ?

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2 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

What surprises me is just how close to the lock cottage they built that road bridge.20200929_121330.jpg.26b1aa1dd7163d136a99b1ed1a377bf1.jpg

1 hour ago, Ray T said:

ash-willow.jpgBefore the motorway:

B & W photo credit Molly Traill Archive

 

A "then & now."

 

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The Offending Structure - from 1984 - is just on the right edge of the image, and being so close to the edge, straightening it for the squiffy building-and-horizon whould lose it completely _sigh_

 

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From a slightly different angle (in 2004) the Offending Structure looks a little further away ...

 

spacer.pngspacer.png... and the sign fixed underneath (from yesterday in 2014 and its BW predecssor in 2004) seem very clear that it's not a road ?

 

When replacing the notice, better to have rephrased the archaic third-person instruction:

 

"The fixed footbridge is safer than crossing these moveable gates <---  "

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The Thick - of Hatton Flight GU

 

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... and a little earlier the two steerers reversed out of the lock having heard the squeaking of a log which might have wedged the two boats together. ...

 

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... but the squeaking was from this muntjac deer. The creature was, unsurprisingly, spooked by the experience and headed off at top speed to the towingpath, ...

 

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... which is usually reached across a concrete cap covering the old narrow lock, now an overflow-weir. But not thinking clearly, it launched itself across the seven-foot-gap, ... failed, ... and fell the six-foot into t'cut once more. Not to be deterred from the rescue, our fellow-steerer hauled it from the water again. A head appeared from an adjacent cottage-ustairs-window bemoaning the nocturnal whining of the creatures who, it seems, were always falling into the locks.

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Chester locks about 1979. On the way down herself managed to drain the middle lock and we sat nicely on the bottom. I climbed off and got some rubbish of the prop. She always hated these as there were always lots of tourist about who managed to get in the way. Her excuse anyway.

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