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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Best to know where it is.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

Top of Rochdale 9 Manchester

[Richard T]

On this day 2019 Grand Union Canal Linslade - It was a cold and wet day very similar to today

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2012

Barnsley Canal rope guide.

And sadly on this day 2020, the Barnsley Dearne and Dove Canals Trust is proposing to wind-itself-up. Here

[jpcdriver]

On this day in 2017

Whitley Bridge, Aire & Calder

[Iain_S]

9 hours ago, PeterScott said:

Horses For Courses, I expect. Fort Augustus in 2014

I don't think this Horse is doing much pulling ?

 

 

 

Quite right, too. The back rope does the forward motion, the front one does the steering.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

Sheffield Basin

[John Liley]

Early holidays again: the southern Oxford Canal and the northern in, I think,1954. The Canal Cruising Company of Stone had to regularly renew side-opening windows, at £2 a time (= £56 today)

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

Great Haywood Junction

 

Edited June 11, 2020 by PeterScott
demerge merge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1988

Braunston Turn

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Buckby Locks

Thanks @Tim Lewis for the dedication to leave this shelter and taking my pic, all in the middle of a deluge

[Chris Lowe]

That dedication still steering in that rain

[Richard T]

On this day 2017 - Inverness end of the Caledonian Canal

 

The very end of the canal

 

The sea lock

 

The railway line to the north crossing the canal

[Richard T]

On this day 2018

 

Wightwick Manor House - a lovely Arts & Crafts house which is 10minutes walk from the Staffs & Worcs canal at Compton. Its well worth stopping to visit it.

 

Bratch locks

 

 

[Richard T]

On this day 2019 Grand Union canal - Bulbourne workshops.

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

Thwaite Mills Leeds

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

Droitwich Junction Canal Lock 7 which would later be joined to some more canal

and a nearby M5 culvert destined to be canalised

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

Tixall WIde S+W

[Dav and Pen]

Mol locks Herentals Canal Belgium. This canal was part of the route from leige to Antwerp before the Albert canal was built. The barges are called Kempenaars and are 55m long. Most of the traffic is silica sand from a loading place just above these 3 locks.

Edited June 12, 2020 by Dav and Pen
Spelling

[jpcdriver]

On this day in 2017

Barnby Dunn, S&SYN

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2015

above Bagnall Lock on the offside - T&M

The "living sculpture" above the lock, which compares with its hairier self in 2018 below (#1033) and when new public art in 1999 below (#1030)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 12, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

Yesterday in 2000

Consall Forge Caldon C

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Containerisation at Br21 GU South

Edited June 12, 2020 by PeterScott

[matty40s]

7 hours ago, Richard T said:

On this day 2019 Grand Union canal - Bulbourne workshops.

 

 

 

 

Wheres all the boats gone!!

Oh, of course, boats dont fit in with keeping our canal heritage pristine and development funds coming...

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2000

Stoke T&M

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