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Coming down Garrison Locks in Birmingham this afternoon, Jeannette was half in the lock and couldn't move forward or back. Found the boat was jammed by a plastic box between the hull and lockside. Eventually got boat to move back and I dragged the box out with the boathook.

 

It was the bottom half of a PortaPotti, the valve was open and it was full of sxxt.

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A ford Escort 1600 Lx

 

Boating through leicester.... remember it well! used to be an almost weekly occurance for someone to dump a car in one of the locks round glen parva.

 

My own was a 57' hire boat sunk to the gunnels in the middle of the llangollen.... the guy who hired it was stood on the roof along with 2 kids and a wife waving her finger and screaming obscenities at him for "fiddling" apparently he had been messing about with the weed hatch and not secured it properly!

 

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A ford Escort 1600 Lx

We ran over a car going through Lemington a number of years back. I was impressed on two fronts:

1 The old gal hit it, reared up over it, crushed it and then passed over it!

2 The canal was deep enough to hide it in the first place so that I didn't see it!

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Stuck ontop of a Morris Minor in Birmngham for a day and a half !!

worse because it was a friends boat.......

The good side was I met a couple who were waiting to come down the next lock and couldn't get past me .They became life long friends over a cup of tea and a bacon sarny ....

:) Mike and Lynda :lol:

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Well I'm not sure considering recent posts...

 

But we hit something going through Stoke a few years back, a freind to be having hit a car within a very short space of time in the same place...

 

However the suspected kids play tent, total cutting time in the region of 5 hours having unbolted the prop shaft, is pretty bad.

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However the suspected kids play tent, total cutting time in the region of 5 hours having unbolted the prop shaft, is pretty bad.

 

Is it just me, or ...... :)

 

Oh, OK, I've just translated it!! :lol:

 

edited to cover my grade 2 edoocashun.

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I saw a Red Vauxhall Astra in the Peak Forest canal coming through at night and the lights were still on!! Fully sumerged, hope no poor sod was still in it :)

 

I came up the GU a couple of years ago, we got to Solihull and to this day I have never seen so much rubbish in the canal, it completely covered the surface for a good two hundred yards or so and there was plenty more after that. It was general household rubbish. I managed to clear the prop a few times using the gaff hook hanging over the back.

 

Theres what appears to be a housing estate that backs onto the canal its through a cut so the houses are quite high up the bank. It would seem they just chuck their rubbish straight over the back fence! It was strewn all over the bank and in the trees, looked an absolute mess.

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Oh how we love to moan about BW on this forum but;

 

Osterly Lock (Southern GU- No. 98) has an unfortunate design flaw where the overspill weir is positioned such that every piece of rubbish that ever floats down the River Brent is deposited in the pool directly in front of the top gates. To their great credit, BW keep a rubbish barge on site permanently and regularly send a team up from Brentford to clear it out. I passed them there working away two weeks ago and again yesterday. There was a car trailer and a small motorbike in the barge this week. Well done BW!

 

 

Worst canal rubbish I have ever seen - Hindu Coconuts! Stuck behind a 14' beam work boat coming up Hanwell flight just after a major Hindu festival. All it takes is one little coconut to wedge the work boat. Eventually they let me pass. Apparently, the GU substitutes for the Ganges in the Southall Hindu community!

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Richard, is that one of the locks at Blackburn?

 

We went through a couple of years ago, and it was absolutely appalling. On the way back, the next day, we found the lock taped off by the police as they'd just pulled a body out! We must have sailed over him, as apparently he'd been there for a day or two.

 

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Richard, is that one of the locks at Blackburn?

 

We went through a couple of years ago, and it was absolutely appalling. On the way back, the next day, we found the lock taped off by the police as they'd just pulled a body out! We must have sailed over him, as apparently he'd been there for a day or two.

 

Janet

 

It isn't but does look remarkably like Blackburn Top Lock.

 

To give a clue, the closest you have come is that there is a 'colour' in the name of the lock and you would have sailed through it on Devon last year !

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