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

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

Approaching Sheffield S&SYN

[Athy]

11 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2009

Bridge 30 Great Score Swing Bridge Burscough L&L

And from the other direction, with a useful sign

 

If it must be kept open at all times, why is it there?

[WotEver]

21 hours ago, OldGoat said:

Comes in four varieties,

sweeter, smoother, richer -

and only one and six,

Lyons

 

 

maid

family brick.......

 

Oh, dear that's the ice cream jingle...

The didn't do one for their tea.

 

I couldn’t find the brick one but apparently a blonde in a miniskirt was how to sell ice cream in the 60’s

[Mike Todd]

3 hours ago, Athy said:

If it must be kept open at all times, why is it there?

Not an option 10 years later (2019)!

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2010

Dudley Tunnel for an organised trip through the full length of the tunnel.

Electra winding at the top of Parkhead locks, through the tunnel, and manoeuvring in Castle Mill Basin.

 

  

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Somerton Deep Lock Southern Oxford C

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

 

Berkhamsted GUSouth

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

 

Bingley 5-rise L&L

Barry the long-term lockkeeper on duty

and a long way down to the steerer

 

 

[Dav and Pen]

Deep double lock to cross the R. Allier at Le Guetin canal lateral Loire.

bottom of lock but no riding bollards or hooks in wall

Edited June 20, 2020 by Dav and Pen
Spelling

[Richard T]

On this day in 2019 - The river Thames around Wallingford.

 

 

 

People who live in glass houses.... There was a crack in one of the panes!!

 

 

Days lock

 

 

Moulsford railway bridge

 

 

Moulsford railway bridge - its built on the skew so look at the amazing quality of the brick laying.

 

 

Summer house at Wallingford.

[Richard T]

On this day 2018 - River Avon Stratford

 

Stratford waterside and the Workman bridge

 

 

The Royal Shakespeare theatre

 

Edited June 20, 2020 by Richard T

[ditchcrawler]

41 minutes ago, Richard T said:

On this day in 2019 - The river Thames around Wallingford.

 

 

 

People who live in glass houses.... There was a crack in one of the panes!!

 

 

I always wondered when I passed how often it gets used

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

L&L milepost

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

Liverpool Link lock. Compare #1814 (which was from the top floor of the Crown Plaza Hotel , the brick-coloured building opposite)

Across the ornamental bridge

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2009

Liverpool. The creation of the Liverpool Canal Link was given impetus by the city's successful bid to be the European Capital of Culture in 2008. Of the public art created for the festival, the rotating building and the Superlambanana were still prominent on this trip in 2009.

Edited June 20, 2020 by PeterScott
+link

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1984

Grindley Brook Staircase Llangollen Canal

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Banbury, Southern Oxford. From the museum. Compare #1601

[Athy]

15 hours ago, Dav and Pen said:

Deep double lock to cross the R. Allier at Le Guetin canal lateral Loire.

 

 

Is that the Briare aqueduct? We had a hire boat on the Canal Latéral a la Loire (catchy name, eh?) last year and crossed the aqueduct, but thankfully we did not encounter that menacing-looking lock.

[Dav and Pen]

No this is the Briare aqueduct the other one is across the r.allier which joins the Loire very nearby. The Briare one was built by the famous tower builder who also built things in metal all over France, bit like our Brunel

[Athy]

13 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

No this is the Briare aqueduct the other one is across the r.allier which joins the Loire very nearby. The Briare one was built by the famous tower builder who also built things in metal all over France, bit like our Brunel

Yes, quite an eyefull, isn't it?

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Little Bourton Lock Cottage Southern Oxford

and a bit further north

[Murflynn]

19 hours ago, Richard T said:

 

 

 

Moulsford railway bridge

 

 

Moulsford railway bridge - its built on the skew so look at the amazing quality of the brick laying.

 

 

clever bloke that Brunel person. 

 

there are 2 bridges side by side, the second one was built much later, to be a near perfect match but without the stonework.

[Athy]

24 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2018

Little Bourton Lock Cottage Southern Oxford

and a bit further north

The lock cottage was bought some eight or ten years ago I'd guess, by the couple who live on 'Scyeffe' moored just North of Cropredy near The Slipway. It had been occupied by an elderly lady, and bits of the garden which she tended are still visible. Local rumour has it that they thought a new connecting lane or track was going to be built adjacent to the house, as part of a flood defence scheme for Banbury. However it wasn't, and so the site remains entirely without road access. It hasn't even got its well on the other side of the canal any more as CART filled that in. They have done some work on the house, but progress appears to have been gradual. I don't know if they still own it.

   The sign in picture 2 is on the Cropredy long-term moorings, and appeared some three years ago, the handiwork, one assumes, of a disgruntled boater who found that bit too shallow to moor on. Even during the Festival there's usually a bit of as gap there!

[Victor Vectis]

On this day last year.....

 

 

.....The tide was in at Peterborough.

Edited June 21, 2020 by Victor Vectis

[Scholar Gypsy]

44 minutes ago, Athy said:

The lock cottage was bought some eight or ten years ago I'd guess, by the couple who live on 'Scyeffe' moored just North of Cropredy near The Slipway. It had been occupied by an elderly lady, and bits of the garden which she tended are still visible. Local rumour has it that they thought a new connecting lane or track was going to be built adjacent to the house, as part of a flood defence scheme for Banbury. However it wasn't, and so the site remains entirely without road access. It hasn't even got its well on the other side of the canal any more as CART filled that in. They have done some work on the house, but progress appears to have been gradual. I don't know if they still own it.

   The sign in picture 2 is on the Cropredy long-term moorings, and appeared some three years ago, the handiwork, one assumes, of a disgruntled boater who found that bit too shallow to moor on. Even during the Festival there's usually a bit of as gap there!

And that photo reminds me of the late Irene Paine, who was the previous resident for many years and I recall always welcomed passing boats - especially if we turrned the engine off.