Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.

[ditchcrawler]

4 hours ago, cuthound said:

 

Or Alvecote at the end of August.

Or any day when they are not all out playing. the marina if full of them 

[Victor Vectis]

That big crane looks handy should you require your boat lifting out.

[David Mack]

23 boats  looking almost lost in one lock.

[Rob-M]

Chasing down the Mathew in Bristol harbour 

 

[David Mack]

4 hours ago, David Mack said:

23 boats  looking almost lost in one lock.

Compare that with the Mauretania entering the same lock in 1939.

[Ronaldo47]

11 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Compare that with the Mauretania entering the same lock in 1939.

My late mother said that she was one of hundreds of people who went to the Thames-side open ground next to Barking Power Station to watch it go past. She didn't say if it was arriving or departing.

[David Mack]

Lining up for a photo shoot of the Woolwich boats in King George V Dock.

And the rest of the flotilla leaving the entrance lock to join us in the dock.

 

And back in the entrance lock again.

Edited May 7 by David Mack

[David Mack]

Departing KGV.

[David Mack]

Sadly, they are not going to open this for us.

[PeterScott]

This morning 

 

 

Leaving for Lundy.  MS Oldenburg Picture by IainScott

 

 

 

 

and on the way ...

[PeterScott]

This afternoon

 

 

Ripon Basin

[Stroudwater1]

9 hours ago, PeterScott said:

This morning 

 

 

Leaving for Lundy.  MS Oldenburg Picture by IainScott

 

 

 

 

and on the way ...

Sea looks fortunately calm. She can certainly pitch and roll, especially heading towards Lundy. Went with a keen group of walkers who were so seasick they had to get the Landrover up the hill. 

[PeterScott]

This afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some sun and few people at Sheffield Basin (Victoria Quays) S&SYN 

 

 

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[TID Tug Tony]

I enjoyed a very pleasant walk along the Elsecar Branch of the Dearne & Dove Canal yesterday. The photos are of the basin at Elsecar and the 1795 Newcomen Beam Engine that pumped water from Elsecar New Colliery.

[Stroudwater1]

Yesterday, breezy and busy at the Go boats. 

 

 

Paddington basin, Grand Union canal.  

[PeterScott]

This afternoon

 

 

Bollard Update -  above Fradley Middle Lock T&M. 

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[PeterScott]

Just now

CoventryC approaching FradleyJ... not yet as warm as weather-people predict 

[Jon57]

[PeterScott]

This morning

 

Talking bench around  Common Lock No 14 T&M  Sadly insufficient enthusiasm to have a conversation with it. And not all benches of similar design are at all talkative. Compare  12May2024 27Jul2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"living sculpture" above Bagnall lock, Alrewas T&M.  Still living OK but the sculptural elements have faded away even more ...

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[PeterScott]

This morning: above Bagnall Lock, the River Trent is supposedly in an amber state.

 

Canal conditions are always changeable, and always a Good Idea to be cautious, so it's probably right - but not very helpful. (Unlike the old Thames Conservancy amber signs which were either Amber Strong Stream Increasing or Amber Strong Stream Decreasing - which gave useful information)

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the river section = placid as could be, with the sign at the river section lock saying normal. 

 

 

... and displacing a number of irritated spiders, the one screw on the slide-in cover can make the signs consistent.

Whether they are ever reliable or useful is another matter`...

[Hudds Lad]

One for @haggis

 

 

[PeterScott]

Boat at Crick this afternoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and another, of recyclable plastic

 

 

and some of more traditional design...

 

 

 

 

Edited May 26 by PeterScott
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[Rob-M]

Today, passing that telegraph pole...

 

Coventry canal 

 

[ditchcrawler]

3 hours ago, Rob-M said:

Today, passing that telegraph pole...

 

Coventry canal 

 

It has what looks like a surveying reflector on it, not sure if that is a good or bad sign for it 

[cuthound]

7 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

It has what looks like a surveying reflector on it, not sure if that is a good or bad sign for it 

 

It amazes me how little it has deteriorated over the last 30 years or so since the fourth from the bottom spar began to fail.

 

Hopefully it will remain for some time to come.

 

Perhaps members of this association can be persuaded to look after it? However their last entry was 2024, so perhaps it has been disbanded.

 

https://www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/category/telegraph-poles/pole-of-the-month/

Edited June 1 by cuthound
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