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[Jen-in-Wellies]

3 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

This is at Bascote looking along the old narrow chamber with new wide locks alongside; it looks like a derelict / restoration-project canal.

At one of the GU locks with a similar abandoned narrow lock alongside, I came across a mother duck at the bottom, quacking loudly at her brood of ducklings swimming in the narrow lock chamber above. Thinking I was going to do a good deed, I went to the boat to get the fisherman's landing net that was there to rescue fallen in cats. While walking back I found out what mum's plan was as each duckling made the six feet or so leap off the stop planks in to the bottom pound. Ducklings are small and fluffy, so they fall very slowly. The last duckling was very unsure about making the jump, but eventually plucked up the courage. Once they were all down, the family swam off.

Jen

Edited December 27, 2020 by Jen-in-Wellies

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

Worsley Leigh Branch Bridgewater Canal

Edited December 27, 2020 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

King's Norton Stop Lock, Northern Stratford Compare #4613 (1996/2003) #2266 (2001) #901 (2003) #3982 (2006) #2186 (2018)

and King's Norton Junction W+B Compare #2882 (1995)  #3982 (2006) #1412 (2009)

 

[PeterScott]

7 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

This is at Bascote looking along the old narrow chamber with new wide locks alongside; it looks like a derelict / restoration-project canal. [from 2006]

 

Corrected from #4697: well-spotted. Not Stockton but Bascote.

6 hours ago, Victor Vectis said:

... Looks more like Bascote Bottom Lock to me.

5 hours ago, Rob-M said:

Bascote Bottom lock was what Peter titled it when posting on Canal Plan https://canalplan.org.uk/photo/ftgm_3

 Yes, well spotted and good detective-work ?

 

Looking t'other way (2018) has the same illusion of a derelict / restoration-project canal and from 2018, some of the white lining has worn away and the reeds have expanded their influence

 

 

Stockton Locks are similar but the offside wall of the old narrow locks isn't as easily visible

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Cape Arm BCN Main Line Compare #4281 (2003) #4176 (2015) #1113 (2018) and for t'other side of that guillotine gate  #2037 (2000) And t'other side of the (once) crossroads

 

 

and similar views from this day in 2004

 

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

BCN New Main Line Spon Lane Station Bridge

 

 

BCN New Main Line  Hartley Bridge  and the M5

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

above Minworth Top Lock B+F and on this day in 2004

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

 

Aston locks B+F

 

Compare #4584 (1999) for thickness

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

Lapworth Stratford C and the link to GU

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2000

 

Whatcroft Flash T&M Compare #4322 (2001) #3130 #4562 (2013)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2000

 

Middlewich T&M

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1996

 

Stockton Top Marina GU and waiting outside below Birdingbury Bridge No 21

 

 

More coldness from the twentysevenths of December

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

 

 

The Mere at Ellesmere. And Blackwater Meadow Marina on the Llangollen canal

 

Edited December 28, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1988

 

Rotherham S+SYN

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

Grappenhall Bridgewater Canal.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

Drayton Manor Footbridge B+F

 

Compare

#3790 #4668 (2002)

#4259 (2003)

#4647 (2005)

#4678 (2006)

#4365 (2007)

#1192 #3618 (2011)

#4066 (2014)

#4173 #4194 (2015)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

 

King's Norton Junction W+B

Compare

#2882 (1995) 

#3982 (2006)

#4703 (2007)

#1412 (2009)

 

King's Norton Stop Lock, Northern Stratford

Compare #4613 (1996/2003)

#2266 (2001)

#901 (2003)

#3982 (2006)

#4703 (2007)

#2186 (2018)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2001

 

Barton Turns Marina

 

Edited December 28, 2020 by PeterScott
unmerge a merge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

B+F Curdworth More twentyeighths of December

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

Great Haywood Junction

 

Compare #3852 (1995)

#527 (2001)

#4303 (2003)

#4283 #4291 (2004)

#4651 (2007)

#3586 (2012)

#699 #2712 (2013)

#3918 (2014)

#3580 (2015)

#3989 (2016)

#1945 (2019)

 

[Tam & Di]

12 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2001

 

Barton Turns Marina

 

It was a bit windy that day by the look of it.  ?

 

Tam

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

some iciness ...

 

and a boat cracking through ...

 

 

and a similar view from this day in 2012:

 

 

from Dutton Horse Bridge 211 T&M

[ditchcrawler]

Last year

 

4 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Last year

 

2018

 

 

 

 

2015, do you know what and where 

 

Edited December 29, 2020 by ditchcrawler

[Dorlan]

21 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

 

2015, do you know what and where 

 

Keb holder?

 

[PeterScott]

And also from this day in 2012

 

 

T&M Canal closed because of the 2012 Dutton Breach T&M   Compare #3567 (re2012) #3129 (2013)