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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2001

 

 

 

 

 

Bordesley Junction BCN Compare 10Apr1978  3Jul2005    24Sep2011  25May2013   13Apr2019

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

Marsden end of Standedge Tunnel, HNC. Compare 3Jan2000  17Oct2007   26Jul2009  Also hereabouts on this day 2016, a celebration of 4-years of C&RT ...

  

On 11/07/2020 at 21:59, PeterScott said:

 

On this day in 2016

 

Marsden HNC

 

a cake to celebrate four years of C&RT

 

... with presentations from Richard Parry (Chief Executive) and Allan Leighton (Chairman) ...

 

... an associated brass band in the Visitor Centre

 

and a trip into Standedge Tunnel

 

 

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

O2 River Thames

[John Liley]

At Sete, the town on the Mediterranean coastcreated when the Canal du Midi was built, barges wait before unloading cargoes of grain.Alas, such, trade on the Midi has since disappeared, despite an attempt to bring its substandard locks up to Freycinet dimensions.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

Rugeley T&M.

 

And a more conventional composition ...

 

Neither is now possible

 

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

Fradley Junction T&M/Coventry

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

Dual Carriagway Ahead. A350. K&A and Semington top Lock Compare 28Jun2006

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

 

The Watney book of Inland Cruising Viscount StDavids published 1966 emphasised "painted white to be seen in the dark" Trees were smaller then

 

 

 

 

 

Colwich Lock T&M Compare  19Aug2013  4Nov2016  12July2018  25Apr2021  5May2021

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 1974

 

Hatton flight

GU Braunston-Birmingham

 

Compare

15Apr1973

29Oct2006

8Jul2016

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[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2017

Fort Augustus to Loch Oich

 

 

 

 

On the day 2015

Five Miles From Anywhere to Ely

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1974

 

Braunston Turn Northern Oxford / GU

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and mooring outside the pub, then Rose & Castle now the Boathouse

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

 

  

On 12/07/2020 at 09:05, PeterScott said:

 

On this day in 2012

Clarence Dock Leeds (now Leeds Dock) ... for the Canal and River Trust launch event  ... with bunting and cake

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Leeds Dock A+C. Canal and River Trust Lauch Day. There was cake.

[Victor Vectis]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

and mooring outside the pub, then Rose & Castle now the Boathouse

 

Ooooooooo............

 

Watneys Red Barrel!

 

Yum yum.......(not)

 

😃

 

ETA I'm so old I can remember trying to drink the revolting stuff

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[David Mack]

2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

and mooring outside the pub, then Rose & Castle now the Boathouse

Which presumably still had the Mississippi paddle steamer style extension on the side of the main building at that time.

[DandV]

3 hours ago, Victor Vectis said:

 

Ooooooooo............

 

Watneys Red Barrel!

 

Yum yum.......(not)

 

😃

 

ETA I'm so old I can remember trying to drink the revolting stuff

Red Barrel was the English beer they had on tap on the RHMS Britanis on our way from NZ to the UK in 1974, reduced our expectations of UK beer to very low levels.

Fortunately CAMRA came to the rescue after we had landed.

[Athy]

6 hours ago, DandV said:

Red Barrel was the English beer they had on tap on the RHMS Britanis on our way from NZ to the UK in 1974, reduced our expectations of UK beer to very low levels.

Fortunately CAMRA came to the rescue after we had landed.

You timed it about right. At that time I used to walk past CAMRA's office every day in term time on my way to walk. It was just a front room in a Victorian house in Alma Road, St. Albans, I'm not sure that I knew what it was at the time, but within a couple of years it was making a considerable impact on British people's drinking habits.

   Come to think of it, the first pint of real ale I ever tasted was in the pub where CAMRA had been founded, the Farriers' Arms in St. Albans. This was swiftly followed by the second and third. That was probably in 1975. The landlord was a Mr. Vardy - a surname which was unfamiliar to most people at that time!

Edited July 13, 2021 by Athy

[Naughty Cal]

On this day 2013

Waiting for the tide at Torksey

 

 

On this day 2013

Waiting for the tide again at Trent End

 

 

On this day 2014

Grimsby to Whitby on flat calm seas

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this day 2015

Tidal Great Ouse to Kings Lynn from Denver

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this day 2017

Loch Oich to Loch Ceann

 

 

 

[Dav and Pen]

Today 2018 in Chatillon en Bazois on the Nivernais. Good mooring ready for the fireworks. The boat behind is a wooden replica of the Loire boats and he makes and sells crepes. There is a 180 degree bend after a bridge upstream which is really difficult.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

  

On 13/07/2020 at 07:23, PeterScott said:

On this day 2019

Bristol Harbour

 

Bristol Harbour

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Netham Lock

Bristol Feeeder Canal

 

Compare

1July2006

 

and from an interpretation board:

"The motor barge Carbolate, carrying chemicals to William Butler's tar works at Conham, passing through Netham Lock in 1962. In the background, tower blocks near completion in Barton Hill"

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[David Mack]

On 25/06/2021 at 21:23, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1979

 

Glascote Dock entrance, Coventry Canal

 

And on this day in 2021

(Some idiot left his boat in the way, so I couldn't quite repeat Peter's camera position.)

[ditchcrawler]

I noticed you like leaving the boat almost under bridges

2 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

And on this day in 2021

(Some idiot left his boat in the way, so I couldn't quite repeat Peter's camera position.)

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

 

 

 

 

Lucy restoratilon, Braunston

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[PeterScott]

On this day in 2008

 

Glascote Dock from the canal, when not as full of boats as sometimes it is.

 

On 25/06/2021 at 21:23, PeterScott said:

On [25 June] in 1979

 

Glascote Dock entrance, Coventry Canal

 

 

4 hours ago, David Mack said:

And on this day in 2021

(Some idiot left his boat in the way, so I couldn't quite repeat Peter's camera position.)

2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

I noticed you like leaving the boat almost under bridges

On 15/06/2020 at 12:13, ditchcrawler said:

[commenting on how to extract boats from the far end of Aspley Basin] You should see Glascote Basin 

  

 

 

 

Edited July 13, 2021 by PeterScott

[haggis]

10 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2015

 

 

 

 

Lucy restoratilon, Braunston

That was carlT s boat, I think. He hasn't been on here for a long time. Does anyone know if he is OK?

 

haggis