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[PeterScott]

On this day 2005

Anderton T&M

Edited July 8, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

M5 aqueduct, Tame Valley Canal, BCN

with apologies to the railings and the motorway gantry, which have confused the camera's panorama-stitching function somewhat

[Dav and Pen]

On the Lateral Loire canal near Sancerre and one of our favourite cafes in France. Great lunch if you can get a seat also good place for wine.

[Athy]

43 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

On the Lateral Loire canal near Sancerre and one of our favourite cafes in France. Great lunch if you can get a seat also good place for wine.

I'm sure we dined there last year! Bridge just off-picture to the left? I seem to remember it had some kind of eccentric decor inside but I can't recall the details.

There is a hotel boat mooring nearby; while we were there, the boat turned up and there was quite a kerfuffle as some hire boats (luckily not ours) had moored in its space. Views were exchanged, which the tour manager from the hotel boat won as she had the biggest gob.

[Dav and Pen]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

I'm sure we dined there last year! Bridge just off-picture to the left? I seem to remember it had some kind of eccentric decor inside but I can't recall the details.

There is a hotel boat mooring nearby; while we were there, the boat turned up and there was quite a kerfuffle as some hire boats (luckily not ours) had moored in its space. Views were exchanged, which the tour manager from the hotel boat won as she had the biggest gob.

Yes that’s the place . Small mooring with power and cafe has the key to the supply box. It’s a pity the regular hotel boat doesn’t have a notice with its arrival days which would save a lot of agro. Alternatively the vnf could put some posts along the bank adequate for the hire boats but that’s unlikely.

[Dav and Pen]

On the R Seine south of Paris. All the boats loaded with sand for Paris and sharing Evry lock with them. Even with all this sand they imported special sand from Canada for the Paris beach that year.

[Athy]

32 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

Yes that’s the place . Small mooring with power and cafe has the key to the supply box. It’s a pity the regular hotel boat doesn’t have a notice with its arrival days which would save a lot of agro. Alternatively the vnf could put some posts along the bank adequate for the hire boats but that’s unlikely.

Well there was an A4-size printed timetable - it wasn't exactly stuck upside down in a dark corner, but it wasn't prominent either.  What's more, it was the previous year's! From memory, there was room for us along the mooring strip going one way; returning, we tied up round a tree between the moorings and the bridge.

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

 

Bewsey Lock Sankey Canal

 

 

Sankey Canal has this picture of Widnes, 1881 steam dredger, below the lock

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Lymm Bridgewater C

[PeterScott]

Today 2020

Latchford Locks Manchester Ship Canal

[haggis]

30 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Today 2020

Lymm Bridgewater C

Were you in lymm today? So were we on Kelpie. Stopped for a quick shop. We moored just on front of the wide beam

Edited July 8, 2020 by haggis

[PeterScott]

6 minutes ago, haggis said:

Were you in lymm today? So were we on Kelpie. Stopped for a quick shop

Lymm today about 4pm. Shame to have missed you. We were wondering how busy Bridgewater would be, on the way home from a first car-visit to Small Child for the last 16 weeks; we have taken to a daily Zoom to keep in touch.

 

[PeterScott]

On this day 2019

Sheffield Basin

[Dav and Pen]

Sunset on the upper Saone this evening 2016

[PeterScott]

On his day in 2001

Sourport wide and (on the far right) narrow locks

[PeterScott]

On this day 2018

 

by Bug Hole Wharf Walsall Canal BCN

 

Cranes

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2001

 

Kidderminster S+W

 

 

And after many decades of good service, in 2017 after it had been realised that those elegant-and-functional simple railings were Just Not High Enough

 

[PeterScott]

25 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Kidderminster S+W

And after many decades of good service, in 2017 after it had been realised that those elegant-and-functional simple railings were Just Not High Enough

  In August 2012

 

... and after years of temporary scaffolding "in the interests of Health & Safety", the new railings were no doubt a relief to local users.

 

 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2007

River Don Halfpenny Bridge bridge at the foot of Tinsley Flight S&SYN

[PeterScott]

On this day in 1971

Coventry Basin

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

  In August 2012

 

... and after years of temporary scaffolding "in the interests of Health & Safety", the new railings were no doubt a relief to local users.

 

 

Whilst it is much wider than the bridge in the basin that gave rise to this change, and the cyclist has dismounted, it is worth recalling (if only to remember a young person's life lost and a family devastated) that these bridges are dangerous if misused.

[DandV]

50 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 1971

Coventry Basin

It was pretty cheerless when we visited in 2013 but nothing like this, obviously a lot further back in the recovery from WW2 bombings.

Love the cars though. 

[Athy]

I'm surprised to see a skyscraper (at least 17 storey) block of flats as long ago as 1971.

[LadyG]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

I'm surprised to see a skyscraper (at least 17 storey) block of flats as long ago as 1971.

My brother was a civil engineering student and worked on site on Glasgow's Red Road flats, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Road_Flats

 

Edited July 9, 2020 by LadyG

[Dav and Pen]

On the R.Marne 2012. Fields of vines for Champagne and a solution for locks with sloping sides.