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This afternoon 2024

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Top lock 16 Marston Doles. Local boater said the not-yellow bag had only been there this year so anr repair wasn't likely any time soon ...

 

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junction with the Engine Arm at Marston Doles Compare 18Mar2006

 

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isolated canal and its boat hereabouts. Wonder how long before it needs its bottom blacking ?  Compare   17May2015  24May2015  4Apr2018  22Jun2018

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This afternoon 2024

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Top lock 16 Marston Doles. Local boater said the not-yellow bag had only been there this year so anr repair wasn't likely any time soon ...

 

 

Is the blue bag to repair a broken yellow bag?  :) :)

 

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spacer.pngClaydon SOxford

Replacement 'beam' was planks on either side of the original sawn-off and shortened beam, separated by cross-pieces and studs and nuts to hold to the original beam, and at a higher angle to it. Fuel for the discussion whether these are primarily balance beams or operating levers. The end of the original and its handle is on the ground. 

 

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"No overnight mooring in flight"... but doesn't tell us why not - eg whether the flight is more leaky than others hereabouts, and the intervening pounds are long-ish ...

 

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... with plenty of piling rings (for lunchtime moorers, obviously)

 

 

 

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Thus morning 2024

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Napton Junction  (Wigrams Turn)  

Compare  24Mar1971/31Mar2005  10Jun1988   8June1990  29Jul1994  27Oct1994  16Aug2005  22Sep2005  29Jan2006  17Mar2006  3Nov2006  1Feb2007   9Nov2008   5Feb2009   22Jun2018  ##2019  25Oct2020 

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This morning 2024

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Every canal scene is brightened up with a splash of yellow ...

 

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Graffiti says "FOR 4½ YEARS " and "Can't Run a Tap" ... The bag looks too clean for having had an extended stay ... but maybe it's a volunteer's job to wash it occasionally. Should keep them out of mischief ...

 

 

Broadmoor Lock No 24 Southern Oxford

 

and an unexpected visitor ... 

 

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This evening 2024

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Aynho Weir Lock No 33 (SOxford) has a river level indicator above the lock to warn ascending boats of hazardous river levels, while descending boats entering the river section are promised an indicator board under bridge 187, just below Nell Bridge Lock No 32 ...

 

 

Sadly there is no sign of an indicator board under the bridge ...

 

 

Compare  20Sep2005   19Mar2006  1Oct2006  5Apr2018 21Jun2018  16Aug2021  27Dec2021   

 

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Grant's Lock No 30  SOxford  with a sad-looking lock house also has a non-operational offside top paddle (no rack, nothing to wind), which doesn't even qualify for a yellow bag ...

  

 

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This morning 2024

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spacer.pngDukes Cut lock closed.

 

Sadly the CRT stoppage notice only knows of the slowly working paddle in the Top gate paddle housing not functioning correctly due to the unidentified defect, and nothing about the padlock _sigh_

Wolvercote Junction SOxford Main Line/Dukes Cut

 

Compare  20Mar2006   3Oct2006 (#2)

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This afternoon 2024

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Isis Lock Oxford, SOxfordC, 

 

The National Rivers Authority was abolished in 1996 ...

 

Compare 14Feb1988  28Feb2014 20May2015 24Feb2020 (#2)  27Feb2022  7Feb2024 

 

 

 

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Hythe Bridge Arm (Oxford)  Compare  25Feb2001  17Sep2005 (#2) 28Feb2014  23May2015   24Feb2020  27Feb2022  7Feb2024

 

 

 

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Jerico Wharf  Oxford    A project with lots of plans but no discernable action for the last 32 years  since the boatyard closed... 

Compare  20Mar2006  27Feb2022

 

 

 

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Railway Swing Bridge  

tracks are no longer part of an operational railway...

 

Compare  14Feb1988  6Jun1990 25Feb2001

  

 

 

 

 

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Sheepwash Channel Footbridge   -   Junction with River Thames navigation channel  Compare 14Feb1988
 

  

 
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This damp Sunday morning 2024

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Shipton Bridge No 220 - gate

 

 

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Enslow Railway Bridge No 215A   OxfordC 

 

an ordinary railway bridge alongside the River Cherwell ...

with a Closure Mark ... As You Do

 

 

and hereabouts summer is sadly ending

  

 

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Horse Bridge Junction S Oxford and a boat moored in the canal section  Compare  4Jun1990 13Apr1996 19Mar2006

 

 

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By Allen's Lock No 36 OxfordC

 

 

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Somerton Deep Lock   Southern Oxford   

Compare  5Jul1971  13Apr1996  8Feb2004   20Sep2006   4Oct2006  23May2015  20Jun2018  18Sep2024

 

 

 

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Last Friday 20Sep2024

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Roundhouse Thames and Severn Junction with  River Thames  Compare 18Sep2005

 

 

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and a recent sign on the bridge, not particularly helpful for narrowboats which are too long to turn downstream of the bridge ...

 

 

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Lechlade: it was too rainy to hire one ...

 

 

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... of either sort

 

 

 

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and supervising proceedings at St Johns Lock Upper Thames

 

Compare  10Sep1980 18Sep2005  20May2015

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South of br183 Southern Oxford. Less fun to start the day in the rain ...

 

 

 

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... and it did ease off for a bit ...

 

 

 

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and a flow of water running around Kings Sutton lock

 

 

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This extremely wet afternoon 2024

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CastleQuay Banbury and Banbury Lock  SOxford    Compare 6Jun1990  17Feb2023

 

 

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Banbury has a complicated relationship with its busstation: its first required the canal basin to be filled-in; and it moved to its current position to make way for a shopping centre.  Today's rain made a bid to reclaim it for the waterways. This bus did eventually leave with passengers aboard ... The waterspout was probably just too much rainwater for the sewerage system to cope ...

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