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[Athy]

3 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

Today in 2017 lots of weed on the Burgundy canal south of Dijon. The weed cutter is kaput above the lock. Some of the lock keepers scoop great piles of the stuff out whilst waiting for boats but others only move it when it stops the gates opening.

Being French, they'll have recipes for it.

[Tam & Di]

Loading coal at Gopsall Wharf, Moira Canal June 1975, Stamford, Towcester and Bude. I changed the colours to slightly more patriotic red and blue with off-white lining in jubilee year 1977.

 

Tam

 

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

and some evening mist to the north:

 

 

Norbury Junction  Compare  15Sep1977    29May2004  31Aug2008   1Nov2014   4Jun1987/4Jun1992/4Jun2014

The arm on this day:

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

 

Above Crofton Top Lock K&A. Wide boats use up lots of W- I - D - T - H

[John Liley]

38 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2009

 

Above Crofton Top Lock K&A. Wide boats use up lots of W- I - D - T - H

My friend Robert Shopland, who has died aged 80, did much for inland waterways. With Don Collinson, way back in the 1960s, he persuaded Bath Corporation to fund restoration of the locks there, a turning point in civic attitudes nationwide.

 

As a founder of Waterways World magazine he edited it through its perilous early years, providing a forum for campaigners, a genial, unforbidding welcome to newcomers and a platform for an inland boating industry that, until then, was lost within the folds of yachting.

 

An appreciation by myself is scheduled for the forthcoming issue of the magazine. He is seen here, way back, near Crofton on the K & A.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 7 by John Liley
Mis-spelling (as ever)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

A walk organised by IWPS (as it then was)

 

on the awaiting-restoration part

 

of the Cromford Canal

 

led by Hugh Potter

 

The B&W picture is of the canal cottages above

Edited June 7 by PeterScott
unmerge a merge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2005

 

 

 

Wolverton Aqueduct

 

GUSouth

 

Compare

~1970

12Aug2005

11Oct2008

5Oct2018

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

Smethwick Top Lock  Compare 22May2012  Sept2018  before/after-vandalised

[Rob-M]

7 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2004

 

Smethwick Top Lock  Compare 22May2012  Sept2018  before/after-vandalised

Been restored again, this was 14th May 2021

 

[Ray T]

1 minute ago, Rob-M said:

Been restored again, this was 14th May 2021

 

 

One can but hope it remains restored.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Coven Heath S+W - and chewing away at that tree, As You Do:

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

 

A sign that it was once easy to fail to see, and end up aground ...

 

 

... on the outside of this bend, travelling right-to-left ...

 

 

... all before the mooring was available

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budbrooke Junction,

Saltisford Arm,

Warwick, GU

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1989. The Swan and The Cow

 

 

Cow Bridge Wychnor below Alrewas Weir Compare   13Jun2004 20Apr2010  17Jul2014  

[PeterScott]

 

On this day in 1988

 

 

Stratford-0n-Avon River Avon

[Rob-M]

Today, the view from my office window.

Working in Tixall Wide.

[Stroudwater1]

Occupation Bridge, Stroudwater Navigation today. 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1988

 

 

 

 

 

 River Avon/Bancroft Basin  Stratford-on-Avon  Southern Stratford Canal.    Compare  8Apr1993   5May1996 24Dec2003  25Dec2003

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1989

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fradley Junction

T&M/Coventry

 

Compare

#3393 (1977)

#5916 (1978)

#3055 (1995)

#1760 (2004)

#589 #6028 (2010)

#3492 (2012)

#5621 (2017)

#2319 #2786 #3281 (2020)

#6210  (2021)

 

And here on this day in 2002

Edited June 8 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1990

 

 

 

Napton Bottom Lock SOxford Compare 18Mar2006

On this day in 1990

 

Napton Junction (Wigrams Turn) GU/Oxford   Compare  27Oct1994  29Jan2006   17Mar2006 2019  25Oct2020

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2002

 

Of Distant Memory.  Barton Turn Marina T&M

 

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

 

Black Country Museum  Compare 28Mar1999  26Dec2007  29Aug2008 2Jun1987/2Jun2017  2Jun2017 5Jul2018   

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1988

 

 

Edstone Aqueduct

Southern Stratford Canal

 

Compare

8Apr1993

6May1996

31Jul1996

29Oct1998

12Jul2001

24Dec2003

6Oct2011

1Aug2012

22Jun2018

 

Maybe a selfiestick photo would have been safer

 

 

 

Edited June 9 by PeterScott
extra pic

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1988

 

 

 

 

Wootton Wawen Aqueduct

 

 

Southern Stratford Canal

 

 

 

 

 

[Dav and Pen]

Today 2017 this monster was reversing onto its moorings at St Jean de Losne. After they arrived a few of the passengers had a walk round but not much money was spent locally. In the morning a fleet of coaches arrived to take them off and trucks from Switzerland came to restock it.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Bridge 65 Cosgrove GU. Compare 17June2020 including the vehicle damage in 2020