"No mooring - private"

[matty40s]

Ray, the no mooring signs do NOT cover the stretch in front of the old arm, only the stretch to the left of the photo.

You could therefore more directly across from the arm entrance for 14 days.

[Maffi]

Grrr, wish my boat was here and not in France, I`m beginning to feel an argument coming on.

I am not far from Wigrams when would you like to go?

[Maffi]

Haven't stopped there since 1999 when we were asked by the landlord to vacate a table at the pub because we were only drinking and he wanted it for people who wanted to eat.

 

At least they still provided a water tap. There are numerous places around the system where the water tap was been removed after the house was sold.

They may well provide a water tap but the locals are ignorant feckers. Last November I counted 20+ dog doos around the tap I wrote to the parish council about this and received no reply. Along that embankment there was a dog spot about every 2 feet.

[Maffi]

As a matter of interest there is a NO MOORING sign out side the Moorings pub at bridge 43 in Warwick. It says 'for customer use only'. It is not a CRT sign.

 

CRT say, 'There are NO towpath side pubs with exclusive rights to the mooring outside their premises anywhere on the system'.

[Keeping Up]

As a matter of interest there is a NO MOORING sign out side the Moorings pub at bridge 43 in Warwick. It says 'for customer use only'. It is not a CRT sign.

 

CRT say, 'There are NO towpath side pubs with exclusive rights to the mooring outside their premises anywhere on the system'.

I used to find it ironic that when the Peartree Bridge pub in Milton Keynes was called "The Moorings" it had signs outside saying "No mooring". Edited March 11, 2014 by Keeping Up

[Roadsteam]

The old arm is blocked off by mountains of rubble just behind the two moored boats, so there is room for only 3 boats - one of which is the Willow Wren trainer boat.

That was done years ago when the deck was removed from the railway bridge.

[ditchcrawler]

"Stockton Lime and Cement Works"

[Mrs Trackman]

Off on a diversion. I am outraged everytime we arrive at Salford junction on the BCN that someone has gone to the trouble and expence of erecting 3 large red notices telling boaters not to bump into their wall. It's not an easy junction if coming from the Birmingham and fazeley onto theGU but no one intends to hit a wall. Several years ago a leader of a school party backed into it whilst attempting the turn and didn't survive beingknocked off her boat by the tiller. I can't imagine for a second she intended hitting the wall.

[Mike Tee]

They need another sign -

 

please do not read the next sign

about hitting our wall as you may

hit our wall while reading it

[Machpoint005]

'Please do not lean bicycles against this notice'

In Dutch, circa 1962. No other notice on the pole.

[MtB]

Puts me in mind of this:

 

 

 

MtB

Or even better, this!

 

[IanM]

If You Have Noticed This Notice You Will Have Noticed That This Notice Is Not Worth Noticing

[Mrs Trackman]

If You Have Noticed This Notice You Will Have Noticed That This Notice Is Not Worth Noticing

Brilliant

[PaulG]

[jelunga]

I totally agree with dor about these mooring signs on the embankment at Nantwich. Years ago (long before those first new houses were built) we have moored along there. Then suddenly (cant remember now what year, but those first houses now built) and SUDDENLY the sign was there 'NO MOORING'. We thought then... what!!! So interesting point raised here by dor, and now that there has been more house building further on, mooring for us now for the town and shopping is very limited, unless you sort of hover around and wait for maybe someone to move on... sounds like the supermarket car park on a weekend lol... But maybe we should check this sign out with cart and see if or if its officially placed cos if affects us all eh?

Has it been rebranded CRT yet or is it still BW? If still BW it is likely a non authorised sign since I think all waterways have been ordered to finish rebranding by end of January 2013 iirc.

[Emerald Fox]

Talking of miserable pub landlords, complete git at Fleur de Lys, Lowsonford, Stratford Canal - said NO when we asked if we could charge our mobile phones whilst eating there. A thousand curses on him and a Tripadvisor comment made also. (June 2013).

"Warning, boat thieves operate in this area" - the boaters are thieves by default?

[Joelsanders]

Some of you might be aware of the ongoing conflict between residents on Noël Rd, Islington and boaters. It's a VM area but the residents have been trying to change this for a while. Some of them have council connections and they recently won a small battles - double breasting has been banned until the end of March). Boris Johnson is one of the residents there although -as far as I know -he's kept out of the debate. Mooring space is ridiculously limited in London and this is one of the nicest spots going. I'd hate to see it compromised any further,

 

The other story this thread brings to mind is Sonning on the Thames. Uri Geller bought the mooring space outside of his (huge) house and has outlawed mooring there. I suppose if you have paid the right people, 'no mooring' signs can be legally enforced. Either way, he's made sure there is nothing outside to moor onto.

 

I thinkthe residents in Islington and Geller both cited the health risks from carbon monoxide as their justification.

[Nightwatch]

I gather there are motor vehicles passing the other side of their houses. On a road that was created after the river and canal.

 

Martyn

[ditchcrawler]

I gather there are motor vehicles passing the other side of their houses. On a road that was created after the river and canal.

 

Martyn

But are there hand painted No Parking signs and Dulux yellow lines

[FadeToScarlet]

But are there hand painted No Parking signs and Dulux yellow lines

*ahem* Farrow and Ball "Straw Yellow" lines, I'll have you know. It IS Islington, after all!

[MHS]

Uri Geller bought the mooring space outside of his (huge) house and has outlawed mooring there. I suppose if you have paid the right people, 'no mooring' signs can be legally enforced.

If he's bought the mooring space, he doesn't need to outlaw mooring there. He just chooses whether or not to moor a boat there himself. That's fair enough.

[Tony Brooks]

I thought that he allowed mooring but charged for it (about £7 when our friends moored there) which he gives to the local school. May have changed though.

[David Schweizer]

I thought that he allowed mooring but charged for it (about £7 when our friends moored there) which he gives to the local school. May have changed though.

 

That was certainly the case when I moored there some years ago, although the charge was lower, No one came to collect the fee, instead there was an honesty box.

[Mike Todd]

Some of you might be aware of the ongoing conflict between residents on Noël Rd, Islington and boaters. It's a VM area but the residents have been trying to change this for a while. Some of them have council connections and they recently won a small battles - double breasting has been banned until the end of March). Boris Johnson is one of the residents there although -as far as I know -he's kept out of the debate. Mooring space is ridiculously limited in London and this is one of the nicest spots going. I'd hate to see it compromised any further,

The other story this thread brings to mind is Sonning on the Thames. Uri Geller bought the mooring space outside of his (huge) house and has outlawed mooring there. I suppose if you have paid the right people, 'no mooring' signs can be legally enforced. Either way, he's made sure there is nothing outside to moor onto.

I thinkthe residents in Islington and Gteller both cited the health risks from carbon monoxide as their justification.

But rivers are different from canals. There is no general right to moor on a river bank, as I understand it.

[cereal tiller]

I thought that he allowed mooring but charged for it (about £7 when our friends moored there) which he gives to the local school. May have changed though.

A friend kept his boat at Yuri Gellers mooring for a couple of years

 

Yuri donates the mooring fees to a local Ferret Charity

 

CT