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dmr Veteran II

dmr

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50 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Was it September and the had A Christmas tree?

It was quiz night I remember. 
And the beer was Lewes?


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 remembered in the end

knew where it were just got me pubs muddled

The beer in J W Lees, you can usually smell the Brewery at the next lock up. A lot of the local pubs are Lees pubs. Its brown dishwater type stuff, a traditional beer that some people like, but as you know I am a fan of the new fangled hoppy "alcoholic grapefruit juice" type beers. 

And yes, we had a very hard boating day and sat in the corner behind the Christmas eating and drinking with the "ugly sister".There was a quiz and the pub was rammed.

David Mack Veteran II

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13 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

Looks like Fred Dibnah is prepping the "tower" to be bought down.

Must have been a bit alarming as you wouldn't know exactly when the chimney was going to fall.

Rob-M Veteran II

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The chimney at the Stoke Bruerne mill ready for demolition. A gap in the structure is made and shored up by timbers which will be set alight - Fred Dibnah-style. The year is 1914.

beerbeerbeerbeerbeer Veteran II

beerbeerbeerbeerbeer

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23 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

The chimney at the Stoke Bruerne mill ready for demolition. A gap in the structure is made and shored up by timbers which will be set alight - Fred Dibnah-style. The year is 1914.

There looks to be a cut out in the bricks at the back.

I wonder if they removed a couple of courses of bricks to help it break and fall away from the building behind?

 

Great photo👍

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Rob-M Veteran II

Rob-M

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1 hour ago, Goliath said:


which way you heading?

might catch you if you’re heading to your mooring from there,

I may need a hand reversing 😂

Which’ll tell you where I am again 

 

 

We were in the car, boat still on the mooring.  Will be on it until Tuesday evening.

Heartland Veteran

Heartland

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Pluto has presented a challenge and I shall present another but give a clue that this was a blast furnace canal basin where the furnace used a vertical lift to take calcined ironstone and limestone to the top.

 

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BEngo Veteran II

BEngo

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Guessing at Heartland's.  The boat in the foreground looks BCN day boat, so possibly a hotholer at Bilston, or less likely, because the ground falls away from the cut there,   Round Oak.

 

Is Pluto's the remains of Crescent Wharf?

 

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Heartland Veteran

Heartland

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Well as to mine it is on the BCN and in South Staffordshire it was on the opposite bank to a foundry and beside a canal originally authorised in 1794 and near that ungodly place SODOM

As to the unanswered post by Goliath and others, it would nice to have clarification instead of confusion.

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