Lock landings & Water points!!

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Is it ok to leave boat in lock while I go fetch a pint from the pub?

I love doing that

put boat in lock and go fetch pub pint

raise paddles and drink pint

open gates and away 👍

 

[matty40s]

28 minutes ago, dixi188 said:

How about afternoon tea?🙂

Ah, that's dealt with by mooring against and someone having a crap in the overflowing shit tank pressing the vacuflush button, rendering the offending boat with a lovely peddledash effect centre section.

[Jon57]

39 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Is it ok to leave boat in lock while I go fetch a pint from the pub?

I love doing that

put boat in lock and go fetch pub pint

raise paddles and drink pint

open gates and away 👍

 

In some locks you could have a full dinner as well.🤣

[matty40s]

41 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Is it ok to leave boat in lock while I go fetch a pint from the pub?

I love doing that

put boat in lock and go fetch pub pint

raise paddles and drink pint

open gates and away 👍

 

I cruised up the Lee and Stort a few years ago and found 8 lock moorings blocked with BW boats, and at Stanstead Abbots, had to go and find the crew of the unmanned 14' BW barge in the lock which had gone for breakfast in the cafe. 

🙂

[cuthound]

18 hours ago, Goliath said:

Is it ok to leave boat in lock while I go fetch a pint from the pub?

I love doing that

put boat in lock and go fetch pub pint

raise paddles and drink pint

open gates and away 👍

 

 

I guess it depends on how far away the pub is. One half a mile away is wrong in my opinion...   

[Hudds Lad]

18 hours ago, Goliath said:

Is it ok to leave boat in lock while I go fetch a pint from the pub?

I love doing that

put boat in lock and go fetch pub pint

raise paddles and drink pint

open gates and away 👍

 

That would make you very popular at Sutton Stop, doubt you'd even get to the bar  

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

19 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

That would make you very popular at Sutton Stop, doubt you'd even get to the bar  

Dog and Doublet springs to mind, possible there on a quiet day,

Is it the Navigation at top of Walsall?

Had a few there while still in lock. Beers lined up on the balance beam.

There’s a few more boozers when either myself or me mate’s gone to fetch the beer.

 

oh, the Star Inn at Star lock’s another.  

You’d think there would be some sort of challenge set,

An equivalent to the silver propellor,

 

The pub at Wolverley would work,

 

 

 

 

[enigmatic]

2 hours ago, Goliath said:

You’d think there would be some sort of challenge set,

An equivalent to the silver propellor

I like that idea. A sort of slow motion pub crawl through all the pub locks in different parts of the country

[Sea Dog]

Interesting idea - you could pop for a pint of Bathams as you do each of the 8 at the Delph... 

[BEngo]

In addition to those listed, and accepting that you might need a beer wheeler at some of them in order to get served in time:

 

Shovel at Cowley

The pub at Widewater. Still there?

The Coy Carp at Copper Mill?

Fisheries Inn Boxmoor

Three Horseshoes  Winkwell

Riser at Berko

?? at Berko, opposite the Butchers

Cow Roast, once upon a time

White Lion, Maffers

Three Locks at Soulbury,

Red Lion at Fenny Stratford

Navigation at Stoke Bruerne

Boat, ditto 

New Inn Buckby

The Nelly, Braunston

Kings Head Atherstone

Blue Lias Stockton

Cape of Good Hope

Boot, Lapworth

 Swan, Fradley

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[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Of course we have Middlewich with two ;

 

Big Lock and King’s Lock 

[BEngo]

And Audlem with two: 

Shroppie Fly 

The Bridge

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[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Top of Slattocks?

what’s that pub?

 

and K&A has more than a few.

 

 

 

[Rob-M]

You could nip round to the Clifford Arms from Haywood lock.

 

The Flapper at top of Farmers Bridge.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

If it were a deep lock at great Haywood then maybe 😀

[David Mack]

28 minutes ago, BEngo said:

In addition to those listed, and accepting that you might need a beer wheeler at some of them in order to get served in time:

 

Shovel at Cowley

The pub at Widewater. Still there?

The Coy Carp at Copper Mill?

Fisheries Inn Boxmoor

Three Horseshoes  Winkwell

Riser at Berko

?? at Berko, opposite the Butchers

Cow Roast, once upon a time

White Lion, Maffers

Three Locks at Soulbury,

Red Lion at Fenny Stratford

Navigation at Stoke Bruerne

Boat, ditto 

New Inn Buckby

The Nelly, Braunston

Kings Head Atherstone

Blue Lias Stockton

Cape of Good Hope

Boot, Lapworth

 Swan, Fradley

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Grove Inn, Grove Lock, while you're on the GU.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Samson and Lion on Stourbridge Flight is between 2 locks on a short pound,

can get 2 pints in here!

double whammy 

 

that’s upped the game 😀

a very short pound, you could get extra pints while walking back and forth setting lock ahead

So I’d put boat in lock,

walk past pub and buy a pint, drink pint while setting lock ahead,

walk back past pub buy another pint to drink while boat is going through first lock,

then pass pub again and buy another pint to work through next lock,

so that’s at least a three pint pub!

could even get a bag of scratching in 👍

 

Edited August 23, 2023 by Goliath

[Ronaldo47]

It's been going on for years. On my first canal trip, the winding hoje at Fenny Compton was occupied by two BW unpowered 70' work boats,  securely chained up. It was our mid-week turn-round point, so we had to put the bows of our 60' boats into the entrance of the nearby marina  to wind (ignoring the "No Winding"  notices). The following year we moored up against a boat at a water point where the family was inside having tea. Altough the landing was long enough for two boats, they had moored in the middle.

 

We did encounter a water point, I think on the Southern Oxford, that was a tap on the wall at the side of the lock chamber, so we had to remain in the lock to fill up. No other traffic at the time fortunately. 

[roland elsdon]

We moored in the winding hole at Cowley in the winter of 85.

We were the first moving boats for 14 days in the freeze.

we broke ice all the way. At 1900 we tied up, it was minus 5 or so. So cold the butty towline dipped in the canal and then froze and snapped . ( not kidding)

At about 0700 in the morning someone was banging on the hatches wittering about us being tied in the winding hole. Canal was about 3 inches frozen, they were on the permanents and paying so considered us to be taking the piss. ( never moved their own boat).

Later in the day it thawed a bit we tromped up to the general idiot in Uxbridge. Frozen in there for 6 weeks.

They filled the water cans for us if we bought enough beer.

Never tied in a wingeing  hole since

 

 

[Mike Todd]

1 hour ago, BEngo said:

In addition to those listed, and accepting that you might need a beer wheeler at some of them in order to get served in time:

 

Shovel at Cowley

The pub at Widewater. Still there?

The Coy Carp at Copper Mill?

Fisheries Inn Boxmoor

Three Horseshoes  Winkwell

Riser at Berko

?? at Berko, opposite the Butchers

Cow Roast, once upon a time

White Lion, Maffers

Three Locks at Soulbury,

Red Lion at Fenny Stratford

Navigation at Stoke Bruerne

Boat, ditto 

New Inn Buckby

The Nelly, Braunston

Kings Head Atherstone

Blue Lias Stockton

Cape of Good Hope

Boot, Lapworth

 Swan, Fradley

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The Boat at Berko?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

7 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:

The Boat at Berko?

Black Horse, Devises,?

Close enough if you’ve crew to go fetch. 

[BEngo]

11 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:

The Boat at Berko?

That's the Badger.  Wrinkly moment- Could only remember the Crystal Palace.

 

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[jonathanA]

top lock at Wheelton on L&L

 

do Leffe on draught but would only serve SWMBO a half 'its a bit strong for a lass love' 

 

got a second in whilst using the service block opposite. 

[TheBiscuits]

2 minutes ago, jonathanA said:

top lock at Wheelton on L&L

 

do Leffe on draught but would only serve SWMBO a half 'its a bit strong for a lass love' 

 

got a second in whilst using the service block opposite. 

 

Shut again, has been for months.  Waiting for a new mug to sign a lease.

 

The Kirkless Hall Inn reopened last year though - second to the top lock on Wigan Flight, so quite tempting to stop but not advisable!  We once got told off for leaving a trip boat in the lock and going for a meal, despite being the only boat moving on the flight heading for the dry dock.

 

 

Anchor Inn at Gargrave is right on the lock, sadly it's a pretend pub attached to a Premier Inn.  The last time we went in we looked at the beer selection and ordered a jug of Pimms ...

[jonathanA]

1 minute ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

Shut again, has been for months.  Waiting for a new mug to sign a lease.

 

The Kirkless Hall Inn reopened last year though - second to the top lock on Wigan Flight, so quite tempting to stop but not advisable!  We once got told off for leaving a trip boat in the lock and going for a meal, despite being the only boat moving on the flight heading for the dry dock.

 

thats a shame not been that way for a while...  

 

I've made the mistake of mooring up in the longish pound  (78-79 ?) about 2/3rds way down for lunch and then wondered why the cups were sliding off the table as boat settled on the bottom/hung on mooring lines ... cue running water down from above to refloat boat and get into next lock... (those bloody vandals again....)

 

you could make it into the kirklees whilst waiting for the top lock.... /using the services