Harry Monk:
manalishi:
Harry Monk:
manalishi:
All good stuff here.Yes the Tim n Pru effect,this should keep it expensive for the future,god i loathe television.Just wondering Harry if you’ve travelled the Avon Kennet route? does it connect with canals heading north,or would there be a spot of river work involved.I remember my late dad telling me of a trip he made as a youth around the Worsley coal mining regions,said it was paradoxically as scenic as the Dordogne region of FranceI’ve not done the K&A, maybe next year. It is partly canal, partly river and it connects with the Thames at its eastern end, so it’s possible to navigate from Bristol and Bath to Lancaster, Selby, Skipton etc. It’s not unusual for canals to use river sections for part of their length, I’ll be on the rivers Trent and Soar later this week.
Cheers for that Harry,i imagine the K&A has stupendous scenic potential,ditto the Cotswolds region that’s currently undergoing restoration work. Happy cruising if that’s the accepted parlance in narrowboat circles.
I hope to do the K&A next year, if one of my boys can come along to help me with the Caen Hill flight because working one lock single-handed is hard enough work, let alone this lot.
I went past the end of the Stroudwater Canal a month or so ago, at the moment the navigation is fully restored between Stroud and Stonehouse but not connected to the main network, although they’ve just been granted £23 million of lottery funds so the restoration work should be completed in a few years.
Crikey don’t forget to pack the deepheat those their locks look formidable.PS did you say you once traversed the Manchester Ship Canal?..me and my sister regularly visited Irlam locks as nippers waiting for the huge ships to enter the giant lock there.Magical times.I always take a wistful glance westwards when driving over the nearby motorway bridge but never a vessel to be seen.Is that stretch narrowboatable/