Farmer’s Bridge? In Manchester?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

 

Has anyone else spotted this?

CRT boater update is proudly telling us of the award of Green Flag status in Manchester on the Rochdale 9, which is good news, but why use a photo from Birmingham?

 

 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Goliath

[zenataomm]

They didn't have a photo of the flight on The Ashby.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Their photographer got mugged on the Rochdale 9 and had the camera stolen?

[Tracy D'arth]

Damian has been on the sauce?  Too many junkies under the croft on the Rochdale 9?  Not enough water?

[Chris Lowe]

Has the photographer has his shoes stolen, and left propper up on bricks

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

That’s believable 😃

 

Or maybe (with the goings on in them there tunnels) the photos were too explicit and couldn’t be used on a family friendly website. 

 

[Chris Lowe]

The photographer could have made a wrong turn and got lost in the old Manchester Salford Junction tunnel.

[tree monkey]

To take this slightly off the gentle CRT bashing what was there before the offices and why did they build on piers and not fill in what I assume is a basin of some sort

[IanM]

1 minute ago, tree monkey said:

To take this slightly off the gentle CRT bashing what was there before the offices and why did they build on piers and not fill in what I assume is a basin of some sort

 

They're short pounds between locks which extend under the building.  If you filled in the pound under the building the remainder wouldn't have the capacity for many lock workings. 

 

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

This one is pretty much under the BT tower?

 

They’re very short pounds, so I always thought the extra width was to allow for water. 
 

There you go, posts crossed

[tree monkey]

Ta both, that does make sense, i had never really though how it would make for awkward loading and unloading if the flight was busy and always assumed it was a warf of some sort

[Tracy D'arth]

I wondered how they replace the gates there in Birmingham, the ones in Manchester have rails above them for chain hoists.

[Rob-M]

4 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

I wondered how they replace the gates there in Birmingham, the ones in Manchester have rails above them for chain hoists.

There are attachment points in the buildings over the gates.

[Rob-M]

A sample image I found showing the hoist rails above the gates.

 

[tree monkey]

4 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

There are attachment points in the buildings over the gates.

In no way did I examine them closely but I do remember thinking I wouldn't trust those rusty lumps to lift a damp tea bag

Just now, Rob-M said:

A sample image I found showing the hoist rails above the gates.

 

And they look a lot posher than my memory of them, I blame old age

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Lovely set of locks. 
So easy to use. 

A good bit is passing the office workers at their computer screens and feeling good about not being in there. 
 

 

I think it’s the only time I’ve been stoned too. 
(as in Someone chucking stones)

I looked up at the apartments and gave some bloke grief, but it turned out he was just making a call on his phone. 
Then I saw a head bobbing up right at the top, must have been chucking bits of gravel at me off the roof. 
 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Goliath

[Hudds Lad]

2 minutes ago, Goliath said:

I think it’s the only time I’ve been stoned too. 
(as in Someone chucking stones)

By that logic i've been breaded  (sadly it was mouldy)

[David Mack]

4 hours ago, Goliath said:

 

Has anyone else spotted this?

CRT boater update is proudly telling us of the award of Green Flag status in Manchester on the Rochdale 9, which is good news, but why use a photo from Birmingham?

 

 

They managed to find the right photo for their Manchester undercroft consultation.

https://www.undercroftconsultation.co.uk/

[David Schweizer]

Just an aside really, what does the reference to Farmer's Bridge in the OP mean? The photos bear no resemblence to the Farmers Bridge locks that I know, so where are the illustrated locks?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by David Schweizer

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Must be lock 8 or there abouts. 
On the flight down out of Birmingham. 
(or up into Birmingham). 
known as Farmers Bridge, a flight of 13 locks. 
 

 

[IanM]

47 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

Just an aside really, what does the reference to Farmer's Bridge in the OP mean? The photos bear no resemblence to the Farmers Bridge locks that I know, so where are the illustrated locks?

 

 

 

 

Lock 10

 

https://canalplan.uk/place/uo8t

[Heartland]

No it is not lock 8 

Lock 9 is by Newhall Street bridge, Lock 10 is the other side and where the Post Office Tower was constructed. Lock 11 is north side of Ludgate Street, Lock 12 is by Livery Street Bridge and 13 near Snow Hill

The Lock in the images above is 10 and not far from a CRT office

Whether it is considered CRT bashing or not, there are other items that appear in the boaters newsletter which are questionable. Overall this publication is a useful record of what the CRT are doing  to improve or maintain their navigation

In a recent newsletter they talk about repairs to Hillmorton Locks and record them as being 250 years old and 1772 would be the date when the original locks were constructed. However that was when they were single locks, the present paired locks were completed in 1840 and the island structure which they so lovingly restored would be from the later date !

[PeterScott]

18 hours ago, Rob-M said:

[to replace the gates,] There are attachment points in the buildings over the gates.

For completeness, from Canalplan, which helpfully reminds me that I took the picture "3 July 2005 and was added to the database on Thursday the 14th of July, 2005"

[PeterScott]

15 hours ago, David Mack said:

They managed to find the right photo for their Manchester undercroft consultation.

https://www.undercroftconsultation.co.uk/

19 hours ago, Goliath said:

Or maybe (with the goings on in them there tunnels) the photos were too explicit and couldn’t be used on a family friendly website.

Does the sign (visible in David's pic) have any discernable effect for passing (lewdless) pedestrians / boaters?

 

Worrying to be accidentally lewd hereabouts ...

[Victor Vectis]

16 hours ago, David Mack said:

 

 

Making life better by water?