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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.

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Being French, they'll have recipes for it.

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Tam & Di

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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

 

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38 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2009

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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.

 

 

 

 

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On this day in 2008

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on the awaiting-restoration part

 

of the Cromford Canal

 

led by Hugh Potter

 

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On this day in 2006

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

 

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

 

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... all before the mooring was available

 

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Budbrooke Junction,

Saltisford Arm,

Warwick, GU

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Dav and Pen

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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.

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