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

[Athy]

I guess it's called Huddlesford because of the way the boats are huddled together. Blimey, they're close to each other! Going into, and leaving, a mooring must be a delicate operation.

[Ray T]

On 17/04/2021 at 21:44, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2010

 

 

Useless information department:

 

A laser, an Albacore and a GP14.

The GP14's were made by Bell Woodworking of Leicester.

 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Ray T

[John Liley]

5 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

Which contemporaneous rules were being broken?  It is always good to remember that some of the things we happily do today will tomorrow be forbidden!

Well, smoking, and more particularly sitting on the bow (which I was doing myself, but with less fear of being caught in a turning propellor)+ Legs dangling outside the hull also. What a miseryguts I am proving to be, but you did ask.  JL

[David Mack]

On 18/04/2021 at 00:36, John Liley said:

Stourport again, long ago. A few Health & Safety rules being broken here, but never mind. That is myself on the nearer bow. It still seems like yesterday.

And a Holt Abbott cruiser behind?

 

I like the tumblehome on Brindley's cabin, and the use of what look like domestic Crittall steel windows. 

 

They don't make boats like either of those any more.☹️

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

 

 

 

 

Cheddleton Bridge No 42 Caldon Canal Main Line and Cheddleton Flint Mill   (trust) Compare 18Mar2007

[PeterScott]

On 18/04/2020 at 16:21, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1973

Rushall Canal BCN

 

 

... from t'other direction and after running water down

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

An ex-swivel bridge south of Endon Basin Caldon Canal Compare 20Jul2012 and a Caldon rainbow this day posted this day 2020

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unmerge a merge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2001

 

 

 

Salvage Turn

the corner by the Mailbox development (W&B)

 

Also this posting from this day 2020 mentioned the relatively shortlived circular building, with few exterior windows, strange glass hat, and super view of the canal in both directions. Constructed around the time as The Mailbox development in about 1998 (iirc), towpath telegraph said it became a centre for drug dealing, and it was completely closed for a few years before being demolished in about 2007 around the time of construction of  The Cube.

 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by PeterScott
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[John Liley]

Our boat prior to pressure-washing and having he propshaft being replacd. My son and I spent two days when the new one was machined, trying to get the engine aligned, and had to give up. It then took the shipyard aces almost as long, and at big expense, but they did, somehow, get it right

[PeterScott]

On nineteenth of April 2010

 

 

 

Around Beeston Lock River Trent Compare 19Aug2017  More nineteenths of April

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1981

 

Montgomery Canal  Belan Locks

[Mike Todd]

18 hours ago, John Liley said:

Well, smoking, and more particularly sitting on the bow (which I was doing myself, but with less fear of being caught in a turning propellor)+ Legs dangling outside the hull also. What a miseryguts I am proving to be, but you did ask.  JL

But you used caps on Health and Safety and I do not think that either have been proscribed that way. In fact, I think that both are possible, even if strongly not recommended! (Just that I have an aversion to H&S being blamed for things that they should not!)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

 

 

Jesus Lock River Cam Cambridge

 

Compare

24Jul1992

30Sep2012

9Feb2016

[John Liley]

1 hour ago, Mike Todd said:

But you used caps on Health and Safety and I do not think that either have been proscribed that way. In fact, I think that both are possible, even if strongly not recommended! (Just that I have an aversion to H&S being blamed for things that they should not!)

Point taken, and thanks. JL

[Jen-in-Wellies]

15 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2004

 

An ex-swivel bridge south of Endon Basin Caldon Canal Compare 20Jul2012 and a Caldon rainbow this day posted this day 2020

 

So not a mini roundabout then. Live and learn.

Jen ?

[PeterScott]

On this day 2013

 

Hopwas B+F

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1981

 

Berriew Aqueduct Mongomery Canal

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

 

Around Burton-on-Trent  T&M

[Rob-M]

13 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On nineteenth of April 2010

 

 

 

Around Beeston Lock River Trent Compare 19Aug2017  More nineteenths of April

 

 

Came through there today, didn't take any pictures though.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1981

 

Luggy Aqueduct Montgomery Canal

 

 

 

Welshpool lock

 

Montgomery Canal

 

 

Edited April 20, 2021 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

 

Backs, Cambridge River Cam

Compare posting from this day 2020, also of this day 2003, 30Sep2012

Edited April 20, 2021 by PeterScott
location

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

 

 

Bagnall lock, Alrewas T&M, Compare #1030 #5717 (1999) #1721 (2015) #4002 (2017) #1033 (2018)

 

 

Alrewas Weir T&M  Compare  #2526 (1994)  #454 #5919 (2002)   #3382 #4744 #4775 (2003)  #4310 (2012)  #2423 (2014)   #4025 (2017).

 

 

 

 

Cow Bridge Wychnor below Alrewas Weir   More twentieths of April

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1972

 

Stoke T&M from railway footbridge looking south. 

Compare  #3394 (1977)  #4048 (1993)  #2584 (1997)   #2881 (1998)   #1725 (2000)   #506 (2001)   #5984  #4267  (2004)   #4649 (2006)   #3376 (2009)   #2776 #3519 #3583 (2012)  #1459 (2013)   #3924 (2014)   #3679 (2019)   #3346 (2020)

[PeterScott]

On this day 2003

 

 

 

 

West Stockwith

River Trent / Chesterfield Canal

 

Compare

21Apr2003- posting thisday2020 

16Apr1978/16Apr2010 

19Oct2005 

3Sep2009 

13Oct2014 

14Oct2014

 

Edited April 21, 2021 by PeterScott
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[Dav and Pen]

In 2012 the protest cruise on the Sambre Oise canal had arrived in Etreaux at the top of a flight of locks which went down to where the stoppage was. Many of the boats stayed at the top but we and a few others went down as far as we could. (Can’t locate photos).

The author  Robert Louis Stevenson canoed along this waterway and writes about in his book An Inland Voyage, and the poet Wilfred Owens was killed on 4 nov 1918 whilst trying to cross the canal at Ors. The commune has rebuilt the game keepers cottage where he was taken and his poems are displayed inside. Closed when we were there.