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

[Athy]

1 hour ago, Murflynn said:

not on the waterways, but I love this annual autumn display taken from our front garden.

 

 

Praise the Lord! 50 shades of tree.

[Pluto]

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.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

 

 

Paper Mill Lock Chelmer and Blackwater

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Fort Augustus 

 

 

 

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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

Northgate Staircase and Railway Bridge Chester

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

 

LancasterCanal northern reaches - from br156

 

[PeterScott]

On ths day in 2009

 

Gargrave L&L. More twenty-eighths of October. Try the slideshow button

[David Mack]

15 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

 

What surprises me is just how close to the lock cottage they built that road bridge.

[Ray T]

17 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2014

 

Before the motorway:

B & W photo credit Molly Traill Archive

 

A "then & now."

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by Ray T

[Nightwatch]

26 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Before the motorway:

 

A "then & now."

 

I like the wooden bollards.

[Naughty Cal]

19 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2015

 

Fort Augustus 

 

 

 

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. ?

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2014 - High Marnham 

 

 

On this day 2016 - Mevagissey

 

 

On this day 2018 - River Trent heading back to Torksey

 

[Chris Lowe]

23 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

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

But Fiddlers Highland Restraint in Drumnadrochit was very nice, I don't know about now as it's been a while since I went in there.

[Athy]

18 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

But Fiddlers Highland Restraint in Drumnadrochit was very nice,

Did they tie customers to their chairs until they'd paid up?

[PeterScott]

2 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

What surprises me is just how close to the lock cottage they built that road bridge.

1 hour ago, Ray T said:

Before the motorway:

B & W photo credit Molly Traill Archive

 

A "then & now."

 

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_

 

 

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

... 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 <---  "

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

The Thick - of Hatton Flight GU

 

 

... 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. ...

 

... 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, ...

 

... 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.

Edited October 29, 2020 by PeterScott
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[Dav and Pen]

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.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

 

Aylesbury Arm below lock 11 Bates Boatyard Many wooden boats under repair here. And at Marsworth: Plant In Window

 

[Athy]

10 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2017

 

Aylesbury Arm below lock 11 Bates Boatyard Many wooden boats under repair here. And at Marsworth: Plant In Window

 

 

Is "under repair" a euphemism for "gently returning to Mother Nature"?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1992

 

Tarleton Boatyard L+L Rufford Branch

 

 

and the lock Compare  #1152 (1977) #687 (2007) #662 #668 #669 #670 #1195 (2009) #2690 (2016) #662 

 

Edited October 29, 2020 by PeterScott
squiffy pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1998

 

 

Edstone Aqueduct Southern Stratford

 

Compare

#2653 (1996)

#2352 (2001)

#3688 (2011)

#2675 (2012)

#1915 (2018)

 

 

And Yarningale Aqueduct

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Muirtown Basin, Inverness  Caledonian Canal Compare #3772 (2014)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

 

Drawbridge No 28 Northern Stratford

 

and a Lapworth Lock overflow.

Not an ideal place for the bow of a boat.

 

And gongoozlers at Lapworth junction

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

 

 

Horton Lock cottage GU South

 

and on this occasion, the water levels were good.

 

More twenty-ninths of October. Try the slideshow button. And So To Bed.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1992

 

Barton Swing Aqueduct. A passing Ship. And waiting on opening the gates

 

 

 

Compare

#3140 (1998)

#3357 (2012)