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[Rob-M]

On this day 2018

Reversing Scorpio in to Gloucester waterways museum mooring.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

 Saltersford Locks River Weaver viewed from the T&M

 

 

and Dutton Locks similarly Compare 31Mar2002   26Apr2007 27Mar2012 29Dec2012

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

Anderton Lift  working on all those wires and weights ...

 

Compare the weights here

 

and other views of the Lift

 

#3096 (1998)

#4263 (2001)

#5686 (2002)

#1260 (2004)

#351 (2008)

#4607 (2011)

#5787 (2012)

#4567 (2013)

#1563 (2019)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

 

 

River Weaver from T&M

[Dav and Pen]

In 2005 we were waiting to go on the dock in Antwerp harbour. Belgium has May 1st and May 8th are holidays so that we had 2 long weekends when I could get on with blacking. There was a little bit of plating to do on the bilge.

The big barge was being fitted out as the hulls were now coming from China but the valuable work done here

Edited April 29, 2021 by Dav and Pen
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[Jen-in-Wellies]

2011. Ten years ago today in Doncaster.

Passing Strawberry Island Boat Club

Coming in to town.

British Waterways were in the process of selling off Doncaster Minster at the time. I wonder who purchased it in the end and what it is now used for? ?

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Jen-in-Wellies

[Athy]

56 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

In 2

The big barge was being fitted out as the hills were now coming from China.

 

 

Understandable, as Belgium hasn't got many of its own.

[John Liley]

When, long ago, we brought Secunda down the Canal de Calais, its solitary lock was 5.20 metres wide. Since then a new one has been installed, allowing loads up to 600 tonnes to pass - a larger vessel is waiting in the background of picture 2. Present-day traffic is in crushed stone from a plant outside Calais itself, involving several sizes of craft, though, curiously, access to Calais docks remains still at 5.20 metres in beam.

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Little Venice visitor moorings GU Paddington Branch Compare 2Feb2009 (2) ...

 

for Cavalcade

 

 

As You Do

 

 

Polishing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by PeterScott
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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1990

 

 

 

Naburn Locks Yorkshire Ouse  Compare  4May2015   16Jul2015

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

Whatcroft Flash T&M Compare 24Nov2001  11Apr2007  27Aug2013 18Dec2013 (2)

 

 

Croxton aqueduct  T&M Compare 20Mar2007   7Sep2020

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2003

 

Shroppie Fly 

Audlem flight SU

 

Compare

5Apr2002

31Oct2014 

27Sep2015 

7 Apr2017

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980

 

Barbridge Junction SU

Compare #1847 (1984)  #5779 (2002)  #5657 (2013)  #3937 #3983 (2014)  #4081 #4085 (2015) #5772  #5652 (2017)  #5659 (2018)  #5788 (2021)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

 

Cavalcade - Little Venice Paddington Arm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More twentyninths of April

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1980 ...

 

(give or take some confusion here between 29th and 30th April, _sigh_)

 

By the Bridgewater and MSC in Manchester

 

 

 

[Jen-in-Wellies]

33 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1980 ...

 

(give or take some confusion here between 29th and 30th April, _sigh_)

 

By the Bridgewater and MSC in Manchester

 

 

 

And boaters complain about CaRT encouraging cyclists to use the tow path. The Bridgewater were encouraging pilots to use it over 40 years ago. Slow Down. Share The Space!

Edited April 30, 2021 by Jen-in-Wellies

[Athy]

19 hours ago, John Liley said:

When, long ago, we brought Secunda down the Canal de Calais, its solitary lock was 5.20 metres wide. Since then a new one has been installed, allowing loads up to 600 tonnes to pass - a larger vessel is waiting in the background of picture 2. Present-day traffic is in crushed stone from a plant outside Calais itself, involving several sizes of craft, though, curiously, access to Calais docks remains still at 5.20 metres in beam.

 

 

 

 

 

A feature which, sadly, has almost disappeared from the typical French scene: the once-ubiquitous "deuche".

[PeterScott]

On (these last two days of) April 1980

 

 

 

Manchester: Throstle Nest Bridge on the Bridgewater and Trafford Road Bridge on the Ship Canal

[Ray T]

51 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On (these last two days of) April 1980

 

 

 

 

Manchester: Throstle Nest Bridge on the Bridgewater and Trafford Road Bridge on the Ship Canal

 

Looks like a Post Office Telephones cabling gang.

[PeterScott]

On (these last two days of) April 2001

 

 

Marsden

HNC

 

Part of the exhibition

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Kings Langley M25 Bridge GU

[cuthound]

3 hours ago, Ray T said:

 

Looks like a Post Office Telephones cabling gang.

 

From the "Busby" era.

[PeterScott]

This morning 2021

 

Excellent to be afloat again

 

 

on the Coventry ...

 

 

to the junction with the B+F

 

 

Swimming tuition. Ready ...

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

 

 

 

Leeds Dock A+C (Clarence Dock then) 

Compare:   #1943 (2007)   #4591 (2011)  #2343 (2012)  #2208 (2013)  #2114 (2014)   #2112 (2015)   #4831 (2016)   #1215  #5670 (2018)   #2305 (2020)

Edited May 1, 2021 by PeterScott
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[Dav and Pen]

May 1st 2005 early morning waiting to go on the dock. The big barge was having a new rudder fitted. They wear through due to the amount of silt in the water and the power of the propeller. Bit like sand blasting, this yard specialist in rudders and propellers and usually have them in stock for their regular customers.