Canals in the media

[Chop!]

This morning I happened to see Keith Floyd on some random best of cookery programme, he was travelling and cooking on a pair of narrowboats, and their owner looked very familiar.

 

Link here

 

Then in the pub this evening one of the locals said there had been an section on canals in The Times over the weekend, he says he'll keep it for me. Tried, without any luck, to find it online.

Edited November 3, 2013 by Chop!

[Lady Muck]

Oh Gawd, I wish they'd all shurrup, we are full!

[Guest]

Mac mentioned the times supplement. But you only get the times on line if you subscribe these days..

[Dyertribe]

My dad bought the Times yesterday as his usual Mail had sold out so I got a copy of the supplement. The info was sparse IMHO and wouldn't spur me to rush to explore.

[Macc Lad]

I had a quick flick through the Times article when I was meant to be putting the papers together at work. It was a list of the '30 top canal locations.' I know these things are always a matter of opinion but this one seemed especially arbitrary, with a southern bias. I can't remember the details, but the ones near the top seemed to be flights I hadn't even heard of, and the Anderton and Falkirk lifts were both well down it. As Dyertribe says, sparse and uninspiring.

[FadeToScarlet]

Copied from Halfie's blog:

 

Gloucester Waterways Museum

Fradley Junction

Foxton Locks

Bingley Five Rise Locks

Little Venice

Tring Reservoirs

National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Brecon Basin

Albert Dock, Liverpool

Stourport Basin

Hatton Locks

Dudley Tunnel

Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum

Standedge Tunnel

Castle Wharf, Nottingham

Newark

Three Mills and Olympic Park

Anderton Boat Lift

Caen Hill Locks

Pocklington Canal

Sprotborough

Saltaire

Camden Lock

Lincoln

The Falkirk Wheel

Lune Aqueduct

Sowerby Bridge

Wigan Pier

Banbury

[Trento]

Dear oh dear.. Only "done" 9 of those.. Time to fill up with diesel....

[matty40s]

What about Neptune's Staircase, gotta be more inspiring than the Marsworth flight(tring res)

[carlt]

Banbury???

 

Well I suppose it has a nice Morrisons and you can always score outside the MackyDees's.

[Athy]

Did the waitress there give you her phone number too? What's your secret?

[carlt]

Did the waitress there give you her phone number too? What's your secret?

I was alluding to mind altering substances rather than getting a date.

 

A waitress in the Birmingham Harry Ramsdens asked me out after I finished off the "Harry's Challenge" though.

 

I have had quite a few girlfriends over the decades but I always thought this was quite normal and didn't require any special talents.

 

Perhaps I've been selling myself short all this time.

[mrsmelly]

Oh Gawd, I wish they'd all shurrup, we are full!

Ahhh but actualy we are not full and far from it. There is loadsa space in the nicer areas of the system but congestion in the big slum it seems? I have never been able to work out how that works.

 

Tim

[carlt]

There is loadsa space in the nicer areas of the system but congestion in the big slum it seems? I have never been able to work out how that works.

 

Tim

I think it is the same effect that makes X-Factor, I'm a Celebrity and Coronation Street so popular.

[Laurie Booth]

Did the waitress there give you her phone number too? What's your secret?

I always found having a Rolls helped with picking up the birds.

I'm the pretty one on the left.

 

[Athy]

Er, surely that is Davie Jones of The Monkees?

[carlt]

Er, surely that is Davie Jones of The Monkees?

Apparently fiddling with Una Stubb's mascot.

[Athy]

Nice headlights too.

On the car, natch.

[Laurie Booth]

Er, surely that is Davie Jones of The Monkees?

No 'tiz me

Though it is from a film I was in

[Mike Todd]

I think we are missing just three . . .

 

Copied from Halfie's blog:

Gloucester Waterways Museum
Fradley Junction
Foxton Locks
Bingley Five Rise Locks
Little Venice
Tring Reservoirs
National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Brecon Basin
Albert Dock, Liverpool
Stourport Basin
Hatton Locks
Dudley Tunnel
Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum
Standedge Tunnel
Castle Wharf, Nottingham
Newark
Three Mills and Olympic Park
Anderton Boat Lift
Caen Hill Locks
Pocklington Canal
Sprotborough
Saltaire
Camden Lock
Lincoln
The Falkirk Wheel
Lune Aqueduct
Sowerby Bridge
Wigan Pier
Banbury