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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

 

 

Manchester Ship Canal Runcorn

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

Runcorn Locks

 

More sixteenths of March

 

 

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[PeterScott]

Runcorn Locks 16Mar2009 - instead of the duplicate pic above.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Caldon C

Etruria Staircase 

 

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#3395 (1978)

#4014 (1993)

#2464 (2012)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

 

Napton Junction (Wigrams Turn)

GU/Oxford

 

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27Oct1994

29Jan2006

2019

25Oct2020

[Theo]

On 16/03/2021 at 11:35, TheBiscuits said:

 

Just drive straight in.

 

This is admittedly easier in a 27' boat than a 72' boat!

Yes, but it's so nice to use rarely used and unloved strapping posts. ?

[PeterScott]

 

With a nod to the antipodean origins of this thread, here is James Shaw’s sketch of the steamer Voura first published in the Sydney Mail on 10 May 1879 and republished in the most recent Ringing World, the weekly newspaper for bellringers. There is an article by James Ingham telling the expoits of his grandfather's cousin WB Ingham, known as "WB", also a bellringer and owner of Voura.

 

"WB enlarged his ship Louisa, fitted three small cannons and renamed her Voura. She was now about 40 feet by 16 feet and lightly loaded, could make about 7 knots. She left Cooktown for New Guinea on 1st September 1878 with a cargo including several live goats. James Shaw, an Englishman serving as WB’s secretary, likened Voura’s appearance to “a wheelbarrow crossed by Noah’s Ark”. On 19th November 1878 Voura arrived at Dinner Island (now called Samarai) at the south east tip of New Guinea.

 

On 23rd November 1878 the crew was WB, Shaw, an English engineer, a Greek cook, two Chinese deckhands, three South Sea Islanders and a Wari Islander (between Samarai and Brooker) as pilot. Voura reached Brooker island on 24th November 1878 and the islanders co-operated and entertained their visitors to a feast. On 26th November 1878 as the crew were working on the beach; they were attacked, killed, roasted in stone ovens and eaten. Only Joe, the pilot, escaped to tell the tale. From another boat ten days later, from a safe distance, it was observed  that Voura was already partly dismantled. In June 1879 HMS Wolverine recovered what remained of WB’s possessions – a sextant box engraved ‘W Ingham RN’, a cookery book, an electro-plated spoon, some Masonic regalia, ‘Chandos’ (a novel by Ouida), a biography of Oliver Cromwell, Boswell’s life of Samuel Johnson and the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini.  In 1879, on petition of the residents the Herbert River township was named Ingham." 

 

Here's to fewer hazards to navigation around the world.

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

 

Overflows Engine Lock No4 Caldon Canal

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[John Liley]

England, 1960s. The poster was seen in the Newbury office of the late John Gould, whose sense of irony kept it pinned up there for years. The quotes are from his obituary in the Independent newspaper of 23 October, 2011

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1996

 

Norton Junction 

 

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9Oct2008

 

and earlier at Watford Locks

 

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4Oct2013

 

More seventeenths of March

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

CherryEye Bridge Caldon Canal

[RebeccaM]

Three from Berkhamsted, last month. 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2013

 

 

Coombes  Bridge No 134

 

Mon & Brec

 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

Making a new L&L box clough. The opening's shape was traditionally the signature of the carpenter. Heritage experts are inclined to seek like-for-like replacements.

 

 

L&L footbridges

 

 

Apperley Bridge C&RT workshop above the locks ...

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2013

 

 

Talybont and Talybont Drawbridge Mon & Brec

[Ray T]

On 17/03/2021 at 13:49, PeterScott said:

 

Napton Junction (Wigrams Turn)

GU/Oxford

 

 

Before Wigram's Marina.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1995

 

 

 

Silsden Aqueduct L+L

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2013

 

Mon & Brec Cnal

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

 

 

Napton flight Southern Oxford Canal and junction with the Engine Arm at Marston Doles

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Cheddleton Bridge No 42 Caldon Canal Main Line and Cheddleton Flint Mill

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by PeterScott
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[DandV]

This thread has now been running for a full year, and what a year. 

Covid has made it an extraordinarily challenging year, and for many an incredibly sad year. Certainly heavily curtailed actual boating and normality.

Thanks to Peter Scott and Tam & Di and others, the thread evolved into something very much better the I had ever envisaged.

It certainly provides an anchor, something to look forward to each morning, in for me a now, post inland waterways existence.

Thanks to Peter referencing locations of shots, I think it is now a wonderful resource of the recent history of these waterways.

So many of the photographs are stunning too.

 

[Victor Vectis]

Amen to the above.

 

I've enjoyed playing 'spot the location' before scrolling down to see if I'm correct.

 

Thank you Peter!

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

Cropredy Lock Sothern Oxford and some gongoozlers by Elkington Lock

 

 

2 hours ago, DandV said:

This thread has now been running for a full year, and what a year. Covid has made it an extraordinarily challenging year, and for many an incredibly sad year. ...

Yes I second that, and thanks for all the greenies etc, and all the Continental pictures which have been a revelation of a diversity I didn't really understand before. And for my personal therapy of watching all the pictures go by, in a sort of parallel twenty-years-journey mainly across the springs-summers-autumns-winters of (my) digital-picture era 2001-now. Of the half-million images in my database, there are about seventy-five thousand now online and clickable by the various links, sadly not all linked to their exact locations. Of the abbreviated boating in 2020 another ten thousand were added, so I'm not really catching up with those detailed classifications. Here's to a better 2021.  More eighteenths of March

 

Remembering our friend Henry, who died of the virus.

Edited March 18, 2021 by PeterScott

[Jen-in-Wellies]

29 minutes ago, Victor Vectis said:

I've enjoyed playing 'spot the location' before scrolling down to see if I'm correct.

You're not the only one who does this!

Jen

[Nightwatch]

Moored with the gongoozlers for about eight years before we moved onboard over six years ago.

 

The lockside towpath has taken a turn for the worse since 2006, we’ll it is 15 years since the photo was taken.