Walsall basin is deep - official

[springy 42]

Well it has survived so far though it looks like it may have lost a little pressure.

 

 

 

There's also a piece in today's express & star with photo, but the online link only seems to show the headline

 

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2020/11/30/canals-new-inflatable-warning/

 

springy 

[Jerra 4613]

8 minutes ago, springy said:

Well it has survived so far though it looks like it may have lost a little pressure.

 

 

 

There's also a piece in today's express & star with photo, but the online link only seems to show the headline

 

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2020/11/30/canals-new-inflatable-warning/

 

springy 

Going by the article it seems it will stop people falling in!

[LadyG 946]

1 hour ago, Jerra said:

Going by the article it seems it will stop people falling in!

Yes, I wondered about that, seems rather optimistic, anyway, it's has worked so far.

[Murflynn 2028]

this topic should be in the Silly Signs thread.

On 28/11/2020 at 09:35, Jen-in-Wellies said:

They were definitely exceeding 4mph going too and from the basin.

yeah but their boat was so well designed it made no wash.

[David Mack 2046]

5 hours ago, springy said:

 

There's also a piece in today's express & star with photo, but the online link only seems to show the headline

 

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/walsall/2020/11/30/canals-new-inflatable-warning/

 

springy 

 

Full story and two photos there now.

[matty40s 4453]

By the look of that, it will need blowing up twice a week!!

[LadyG 946]

Let's hope it just a pilot scheme, it's raising the profile of tbe CRT 

[ditchcrawler 2501]

I can just see it now when someone dives in next summer and breaks their neck, paralyzing them selves for life and taking C&RT to court because the water wasn't deep but the notice said it was.

[Guest]

21 hours ago, springy said:

Well it has survived so far though it looks like it may have lost a little pressure.

 

 

I recon once the weather warms up it will explode even without outside human influence.

[Hudds Lad 705]

I've heard they have new plans for the basin to really engage the public next year  

 

 

[David Mack 2046]

23 hours ago, springy said:

 

 

Is it just me, or do others see a large blue cartoon style ducks head, with a big round eye and an orange beak...?

[Rob-M 798]

2 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

Is it just me, or do others see a large blue cartoon style ducks head, with a big round eye and an orange beak...?

Yes that is what I thought when I first looked at that picture.

[springy 42]

30 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

Is it just me, or do others see a large blue cartoon style ducks head, with a big round eye and an orange beak...?

I hadn't noticed that, I took half a dozen pics over a couple of minutes & just chose one of them, two - the second and last are "duck like"

 

springy

[The Bearwood Boster 156]

Duck ? You must think we're all quackers !😆

PS.I can see a blue duck.

[Victor Vectis 838]

3 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

Is it just me, or do others see a large blue cartoon style ducks head, with a big round eye and an orange beak...?

Now you come to mention it...........................

 

[Bitty 3]

It will be fun the next time we wind the pair there and run over what remains of it.

[ditchcrawler 2501]

2 minutes ago, Bitty said:

It will be fun the next time we wind the pair there and run over what remains of it.

I hope you video it

[magpie patrick 273]

5 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

Is it just me, or do others see a large blue cartoon style ducks head, with a big round eye and an orange beak...?

Not just you, and now I've seen it...

 

 

7 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

 

There's a duck with a mohican in this one....

[Hudds Lad 705]

NBW just picked up on this, on the ball as usual  

[matty40s 4453]

57 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

NBW just picked up on this, on the ball as usual  

Only 2 months late, at least they didnt nick the photos this time.

[TheBiscuits 4377]

21 minutes ago, matty40s said:

Only 2 months late, at least they didnt nick the photos this time.

 

That'll be next month's "exclusive" ...

[ditchcrawler 2501]

1 hour ago, Hudds Lad said:

NBW just picked up on this, on the ball as usual  

It just popped up on Facebook, I wonder which came first FB or NBW

[matty40s 4453]

1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

It just popped up on Facebook, I wonder which came first FB or NBW

Neither, the chicken did.

[Mike Tee 334]

I thought it had been decided it was a duck.............

[Heartland 189]

Deep water buoy for an excavated basin, that is probably a first, but there is a very good reason for a deep water sign on the Walsall Arm, which passed beside limeworks and the bed of the canal is deep on parts and used to have signs where the limeworks once were.

 

The lime extraction ceased in the 19th Century but the problems of subsidence continued to occur. Subsidence in parts of the BCN is not uncommon, especially where there were coal mines. Assuming the 4ft rule is not always the best