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On this day in 2005

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Tooley's Boatyard Footbridge Banbury Southern Oxford Compare 2Jan2005 (previous evening) and in the dock:

 

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TOOLEY'S BOATYARD

OXFORD CANAL, BANBURY, OXFORDSHIRE, UK

WHAT'S IN THE DOCK?

The 61ft narrow boat "Unspoilt by Progress 1"- together with its butty- "Unspoilt by Progress 2” was made famous by their adventurous record breaking owner Nick Sanders, who has cycled and motor biked around the world.

He took the pair of boats from the Black Country to River Thames to Calais, up the River Rhine and down the Danube to the Black Sea and back. He and the boats travelled over 8000 miles

“Unspoilt by Progress 1” is booked into Tooley's Boatyard to be totally refurbished. The works that are being carried out include:

• Extending the boat length by 8 ft

• Building a 28 ft cabin on top of the boat.

• Painting the cabin

• Fitting out the interior

On Monday 6th December the boat cut boat in half [sic]. The bow was then pulled away from the stern section. Then the two sections will be joined together by building an 8 ft section of hull out of flat mild steel sheets. If you look you can see this new section in the hull.

The cabin has now been extended by 28 ft

Tooley's Boatyard, Banbury Museum, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 2PQ

Telephone (01295) 272917

 

Repeat of 2021 posting - from where the pictures have unaccountably disappeared into the ether. Then we went on to mention that NickSanders' butty sank whilst at the Black Sea, and linked to NickSanders' canal video

 

More dock pictures ...

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and UnspoiltByProgressI out of the water in 2015 (at Stretton Boatyard SU), ...

 

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and UnspoiltByProgressII at Stoke in 2006

 

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On this day in 2000

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L0869_20010517_0061s.jpg.0e5f057862a18defddf96d099e0503ba.jpgsame position seventeen months later

 

And again on this day in 2000, looking t'other way

 

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L0869_20010517_0063s.jpg.9d08dbc334b8765451f72a827d708f43.jpgsame position seventeen months later

 

Slaithwaite HNC

The lock has been moved above the bridge to allow the road level here to be undisturbed by the restoration

Repeat of 2021 posting - from where the 2000 pictures have unaccountably disappeared into the ether

 

 

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On this day in 2021

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Peak Forest 

 

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28Apr1980

11Mar2000   

6Aug2006  (#2)  

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6Dec2019  (#2)

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3Jan2021

 

Wheels on the wall of Navigation Inn

 

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On this day in 2003

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Alrewas Weir  T&M  and the lock chained closed

Compare 8Jun1989   20Oct1995    4Jan2003  (posted this day 2021) 

7Aug2003  13Aug2003  14Sep2003 (#213Jun2004  20Apr2010  17Jul2014  8May2015  12Jun2015  15Sep2018  12Oct2019  16Oct2021  

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On this day in 2016

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Marple Aqueduct  and railway viaduct  beyond -   Peak Forest  Canal  Photo Colin Park   through Geograph

Compare 28Apr1980  29Sep2003  11May2007  11Aug2012  25Aug2013  12Jul2014  30Nov2014 (#2) 8Aug2015 1Oct2016 1Jun2019 

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On 04/01/2022 at 17:50, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2013

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Ranskill Court  Narrows S&SYN 

 

This used to be a lift bridge for a railway to a small arm of the canal with a loading dock. There used to be lots of collieries and brick works around here. All changed now, except for the canal.

NLS side by side below.

Jen

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On this day in 2019

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Mount Sion Bridge

Bridge 16

Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal

 

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Mount Sion Steam Crane

Compare 22Jun2003

 

Partially restored steam crane is from around 1884 and was used to lift containers of coal from boats and lower them into the yard of the Mount Sion Works below. As one of the earliest surviving in-situ steam cranes in its original canalside location it is a Grade II listed building (Historic England  1242921). Unused for a number of years it is now in a poor condition, with its components still showing how the crane operated,

 

Pictures David Dixon

through Geograph (#2)

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36 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

On this day 2011

Still iced in.

 

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There is a good frost this morning but nothing approaching  that . I think that was the time we had 4 inches of ice on the marina.

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