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1 hour ago, Ray T said:

The no mooring signs were put up at the behest of a Coventry City Councillor who objected to the fact that moored boats overlooked her property at bedroom level!

 

Again I think it was an occasion of NIMBYISM. Similar to those who buy a cottage in a rural village and then complain about the church bells.

I do not know if she still lives there.

 

The canal was there first!!!!

I don’t consider it NIMBYISM at all. Just seems logical given you can look directly into people’s bedrooms. That’s a fairly rare situation. It’s different from a case where people are mooring opposite a house at the same ground level.

 

Add to the consideration that change of use is the key factor rather than who was there first. When the canal was built I doubt it would have been used for mooring at that point. It may even be that some of houses pre-date regular mooring at that spot.

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36 minutes ago, Athy said:

2012 according to the caption in your link, but I guess it doesn't change much apart from the grass getting longer or shorter.

I'm not doing very well today am I

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Fall Ing Lock Wakefield C+H - repairs further to discussions at #2608 (2014)

 

 

 

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On this day in 2005

 

 

Calcutt Locks GU

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On this day in 2011

 

Lake Windermere

 

 

Bird

 

 

Sunset on the lake

 

 

More sixteenths of November.

Try clicking on the three vertical dots (menu) and then selecting the slideshow option.

 

And So To Bed

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

 

Lake Windermere Carferry  Bowness-on-Windermere to  Far Sawrey (540 yd)

 

[David Mack]

On 15/11/2020 at 19:24, Victor Vectis said:

 ?  I wish I had a grey Cortina. ?

 

? ... Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my cortina... ?

 

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17 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2016

 

Fall Ing Lock Wakefield C+H - repairs further to discussions at #2608 (2014)

 

 

 

I wonder how many of those tyres were "fenders" which have been ripped off as boats entered the lock?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Bridgewater Canal  Lumb Brook Underbridge

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On this day in 2005

 

Stockton Top Marina GU  Compare #22, my first contribution to this thread

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

Braunston Turn Compare #1380 (1975) #1710 (1988) #818 (1997) #4187 #4220 (2005) #4096 #4097 (2008) #1985 (2012) #2008 (2017) #2151 (2019)

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Middleport T&M - Pottery

 

 

Tour of the pottery, with Ben being supervised. And some of the product.

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1973

 

Buckby locks GU.

 

On an earlier camper trip we had a gas-heater contraption in the hold which was a burner directly on top of a gas bottle. Someone had thought better of this idea, and banned it on grounds of safety. In anticipation of a cold night I took, iirc, eight (admittedly thin) blankets which I wrapped in layers around a sleeping bag, and this kept me suitably warm. Others in the hold had fewer layers and spent the night complaining that it was unbearably cold and couldn't get any colder. Which until about 3am, it did. 

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On this day in 2006

 

Stoke flight. And the bottom lock.

 

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On this day in 2011

 

Lake Windermere  Compare  #4221 #4227 (2011)  #3990 (2015)  #3865 (2017)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dav and Pen]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1973

 

Buckby locks GU.

 

On an earlier camper trip we had a gas-heater contraption in the hold which was a burner directly on top of a gas bottle. Someone had thought better of this idea, and banned it on grounds of safety. In anticipation of a cold night I took, iirc, eight (admittedly thin) blankets which I wrapped in layers around a sleeping bag, and this kept me suitably warm. Others in the hold had fewer layers and spent the night complaining that it was unbearably cold and couldn't get any colder. Which until about 3am, it did. 

Nice to see Crane a few years before we brought her. It could get very cold in the hold and we tried some catalytic heaters that didn’t have a flame. They worked well but made us nervous so discontinued them after one season.

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On this day in 2005

 

 

Stockton Top Marina.

 

Rebuilding of Odyssey after the June fire.

 

Odyssey's hydraulic drive.

 

Compare

#4172 (12Nov2005)

#3515 (23Sept2005) 

#2181 (30June2005)

 

 

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On this day in 2005

 

Gongoozlers at Butcher's Bridge Braunston GU

 

 

and Braunston Marina

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Paint dock at Etruria  Copperkins repainting. Compare #4043 (5Nov2006)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Bridgewater Canal - Trafford Rowing Cub, Sale

 

[PeterScott]

 

Bridgewater Canal Manchester Castlefield More seventeenths of November. Try clicking on the three vertical dots (menu) and then selecting the slideshow option. And So To Bed

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On this day in 2005

 

A frosty morning Oxford/GU Shuckburgh

 

 

 

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On this day in 2012

 

 

Bulholme Lock A&C

 

Repairs and C&RT open day

 

The chap in blue is inside a paddle culvert.

He is just looking.

Reallly.

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Castleford Junction A+C  Compare #388 (2006) #3812 (2008) #3070 (2012) #2637 (2013) #3051 (2020)

 

 

 

 

[Dav and Pen]

Today at Napton. Lock 9 having new top and bottom gates. Rothens nice little pusher Enterprise.

Tug photo keeps coming out upside down and I can’t remember how I corrected this last time it happened.

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