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On this day in 2009

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Rochdale Canal Manchester (The Nine) Lock 86

 

The heritage  steps used by generations of lockwheelers. Now more difficult to use, and against C&RT's advice, with the glass wall guarding Canal Street.

 

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See also Pennine Waterways

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1 hour ago, DandV said:

From my memory remarkably unchanged from mooring there in Easter 1976 on Carribean Major 998

I don't think Coltishall Common will have changed much in the last 100 years :lol:

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

From October 2019

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From the hill to Scarborough Harbour and Marina

 

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We loved Scarborough Harbour. It was a great stop for a couple of days. Bustling with activity during the day but lovely and quiet come night time.

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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

 

 

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On one of those bends I had to rapidly change my line to prevent a bored collie dog jumping aboard for a boat trip. He was crouched up, judging the distance and all ready to jump.

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56 minutes ago, DandV said:

On one of those bends I had to rapidly change my line to prevent a bored collie dog jumping aboard for a boat trip....

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A Border Collie perhaps ??  If so ...

Avoided bored-Border being aboard-Border.

... Oh well, a reason for a picture ...

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31 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

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A Border Collie perhaps ??  If so ...

Avoided bored-Border being aboard-Border.

... Oh well, a reason for a picture ...

That's one of my dogs! It looks like Gael who is sadly no longer with us. We were just talking the other day about the IWA festival at Burton on Trent which we attended on Gamebird. We took the dogs for a walk the first evening and she  disappeared at one point and we found her on board Copperkins our shared boat which was there with other owners. It amazed us how she became aware of the boat from quite a distance when there were hundred of boats there.

Haggis

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The Forth & Clyde Canal in 1962, and what became of it the following year. Yachts such as this could pass through without having the masts lowered, while fishing vessels also made extensive use. All bridges could be lifted or, more commonly, swung under electric power (unless the fuses blew -which in the last days they increasingly did did.

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On this day in 2005

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8 hours ago, John Liley said:

The Forth & Clyde Canal in 1962, ... Yachts ... could pass through without having the masts lowered,...

One of the two-leaf lift bridges, operational again after the restoration of through navigation.

 

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On this day in 2005

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Dalmuir  Drop Lock F&C. The original  swing bridge here caused delays to traffic, was replaced by a wider fixed bridge, and the restoration project used this mechanism to retain the levels of both canal and road while allowing boats to pass underneath.

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We were at St Mammes this day 2013. It’s on the R. Seine at the junction of the Loing river and is home to many retired boatmen some living on their barges, a shipyard a floating drydock and on the opposite bank a refueling station and barge chandlery.

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