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

[John Liley]

In the chaos of June, 1940, French forces blew up part of the Briare Aqueduct - the only crossing of the Loire for many miles - in the hope of slowing the German advance. It did not work: German forces crossed over using floating pontoons and one year later the aqueduct was repaired by the contractors Dayde et Pile (there should be accents over the letters e!), the same company as built the structure in the 1890s. 

 

At the reopening a ceremony was held, with the berrichon 'France' being the first vessel across.

 

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Mis-spelling (as ever)

[tree monkey]

On 26/04/2021 at 14:58, MoominPapa said:

Various. Most of the high pressure gas mains seem to go under the canal. I don't know if that's because they are newer and fashions/construction standards changed. Most of the pipes tacked onto road bridges are water mains running along the road. Smaller, welded steel pipes are normally diesel/petrol/jet fuel. Larger diameter pipes are water. The pipe bridge at the bottom of Lapworth flight is the Coventry water main running from the River Severn to, surprise, Coventry. It also the crosses the GU north of Rising Lane and the Avon.  There's a huge water main bridge crossing the Trent between Shardlow and Sawley, probably supplying Derby and surrounds.

 

MP.

The one on the T&M where the landslide happened is high pressure gas.

It was leaking a few years ago so I organised a LV shutdown to allow a 3rd party to fell a tree that was sat on the pipe, BG had gas sensors and big fans on site and were a tad unhappy about the contractors sparky petrol chainsaws

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

 

 

 

St Johns Lock Upper Thames Compare 18Sep2005

Edited May 20, 2021 by PeterScott
extra pic - the gongoozlers

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

 

 

Uppermill Huddersfield Narrow Compare 4Apr2010

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

 

Drayton Manor Footbridge B+F 

Compare #5782 (1993) #5958 (2001) #3790 #4668 (2002) #4259 (2003) #4715 (2004) #4647 (2005) #4678 (2006) #4365 (2007)  

#1192 #3618 #6151 (2011)  #4066 (2014) #4173 #4194 (2015)  Also posting this day 2020, also of this day 2011

[ditchcrawler]

36 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2011

 

Drayton Manor Footbridge B+F 

Compare #5782 (1993) #5958 (2001) #3790 #4668 (2002) #4259 (2003) #4715 (2004) #4647 (2005) #4678 (2006) #4365 (2007)  

#1192 #3618 #6151 (2011)  #4066 (2014) #4173 #4194 (2015)  Also posting this day 2020, also of this day 2011

Will be there tomorrow

[Victor Vectis]

On this day, ten years ago.........

 

Our very first trip on 'Red Wharf'. Marbury Lock to Sparks Bridge on the  Llangollen, 6miles and half a furlong, through 6 locks, as per CanalPlanner.

We'd arrived the previous night much later than planned due to an accident on the A34 and had detoured to Abingdon for chips. It would be another 4 years before we got there on the boat.

 

Ten years! Seems more like 10 months.

 

The boat is the most expensive thing we've ever bought. The houses we have lived in were all bought with 100% mortgages (remember those?)

 

Any regrets?

 

What do you think!

 

? ? ?

[Athy]

18 minutes ago, Victor Vectis said:

On this day, ten years ago.........

 

Our very first trip on 'Red Wharf'. Marbury Lock to Sparks Bridge on the  Llangollen, 6miles and half a furlong, through 6 locks, as per CanalPlanner.

We'd arrived the previous night much later than planned due to an accident on the A34 and had detoured to Abingdon for chips. It would be another 4 years before we got there on the boat.

 

Ten years! Seems more like 10 months.

 

The boat is the most expensive thing we've ever bought. The houses we have lived in were all bought with 100% mortgages (remember those?)

 

Any regrets?

 

What do you think!

 

? ? ?

That's one of those those photos which, when someone asks "Why do you do it?", you can show them and they may well get the point.

I'm wondering how you got into the field to take it, though.

[Victor Vectis]

I'd gone across this bridge.

(And thanks for that nice comment)

 

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by Victor Vectis

[TheBiscuits]

Rain stops play ...

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

 

Whitby

Compare (also) 21May2010   13Jul2014   2015 (and here)  2017  17Oct2019 (and here)   another

Edited May 21, 2021 by PeterScott
link

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2011

 

 

 

Ashby Canal Bridge 6 and Trinity Marina

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

Aldersley Bridge: by the Junction  BCN/S+W   Compare  11Mar 1999   25June1999   22Nov2003   10Apr2017

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top three pictures: Bridgewater Canal Stretford and Leigh Branch  the narrows half a mile west of Worsley, looked over by these august characters.

 

Next picture: Bridgewater Marina in Boothstown hosts the public (knitting) art #FLOATIEST which, it seems, took 150 hours for knitting volunteers to sew individual squares together onto the 4ft high wooden letters underneath the wool. As You Do.

 

 

Pithead Lancashire Mining Museum Astley Green

 

Edited May 21, 2021 by PeterScott
format, extra pic

[jake_crew]

I went to Astley Green Mining Museum last year on a beautiful September weekend, after a trip on the East Lancs railway, and a walk along the derelict Manchester, Bolton & Bury canal.

 

 

 

 

[Athy]

You went on a preserved railway and they fobbed you off with a diesel locomotive? That was a jizz.

The (winding gear?)  machinery was imposing, proper engineering. I would have liked to see the steam crane at work.

[jake_crew]

Ah but it was a Deltic.   Deltics can do no wrong IMHO ?

[Athy]

42 minutes ago, jake_crew said:

Ah but it was a Deltic.   Deltics can do no wrong IMHO ?

No they can't. But that isn't one.

It's a Warship class, which aren't too bad as diesels go.

[PeterScott]

26 May 2008

 

 

 

HNC Diggle flight  

Compare  17Apr1979  10Jan1987   3Apr2006   21May2008   22May2008   15Oct2008   11Jul2014   16Apr2016   3Oct2016

Edited May 22, 2021 by PeterScott
dates

[JJPHG]

My local (chilly) waterway this morning.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

and on this (wet) day 2014

 

Leeds Dock

A+C

(0nce Clarence Dock) 

 

 

 

Compare: 

1May2004  

21Jun2007  

20Dec2011 

12Jul2012   

27Jun2014  

27Jun2015  

10Jan2016   

29Mar2018  

9Jul2020

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2013

 

Tower Bridge River Thames Compare 29Nov2003  11Dec2010  8May2011 (+ here)  1Mar2012  3Jun2012   15Nov2012   30Nov2019 

Edited May 22, 2021 by PeterScott
link

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

 

Ladywood Junction

 

Western end of Oozells Street Loop 

BCN Main Line

 

Compare

7Apr1993

3Jul2005

 

Also 8May1999

 

[Dav and Pen]

On this day 2007 we were on the Belgian Meuse and passed this place. The Chapelle is in memory of King Albert 1st who fell to his death whilst rock climbing in 1934. There is now a commando training centre here.

The barge is well loaded.

Edited May 22, 2021 by Dav and Pen
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[Ronaldo47]

Peter, your latest set of photos (Leeds, Tower, Ladywoid) will not load on my phone. The earlier ones are fine.