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I'm on holiday (such as you get a holiday when you're on a boat) and so went back to sleep.
Just had croissants, butter and Apricot jam + coffee for breakfast 😋 (at lunch time!)
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Decaying red brick factory walls with some unsightly graffitti rise from the canal in shade. Prefab roofing of the industrial units is lit up by the sun. A fiercely blue sky outlines the sharp angles of the buildings.
Tbh the view is not terrible, but its almost better in the dark!
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Woke up early.
Dark and cool.
But.....
Morning chorus was lovely
{Sound up}
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Sonetimes the mooring is less picturesque
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Photo of a narrowboat emerging from a short tunnel and about to pass moored boats in a pastoral, tree-lined stretch of canal at the end of a sunny day.
Pleasant place to moor near Curdworth tunnel on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal at the end of a sunny day of eight difficult locks made bearable by having superstar vlockies at three of them.
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Narrow field of view
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A golden setting sun through trees on the horizon outlines the canal bridge in the distance. A wisp of high cottonwool high cloud set against a light blue sky is reflected in the waters of the canal. A bright green towpath and trees edge the frame.
Sunset on the cut
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Water is dripping from the top gate of a lock. The bricks and wood are wet. Blue sky and bright sunlight bathe the lockgate and a lone flower.
Another free Canal water feature....!
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Photo of a canal on a late sunny afternoon with a brick pub next to a towpath lined with pub benches and, in the distance, a lock and small bridge.
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, Curdworth Lock 9, Cheatles Farm Bridge and the Dog and Doublet, all dating back to the late 18th century (the canal was completed 1789, just before canal mania swept the British landscape).
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Photo of a fuel boat turning off the Coventry Canal to head down the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. The narrowboat is 70ft long and came in from the left, a tight turn on the best of days, and a real challenge when the wind didn't want the boat to turn and tried its best to wedge it across the canal.
The most excellent Jules Fuels NB Bargus, which has been an absolute angel over the last four months supplying me with coal, fuel and a tow, at Fazeley Junction on the Coventry Canal.
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From one lock to another....
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A grassy offside canal bank. The cut is ruffled by a stiff breeze. A blue sky lightens to white.
A slightly pixelated zoom into the sunlit grassy field shows two Moorhens scuttling away from the camera.
Evening cruise.
2 x Moorhens!
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(Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness)
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Photo of the front half of a narrowboat against the towpath, the canal a short distance ahead blocked by a fallen tree
#Boatlife day 489
Tree stopped play on the Llangollen two years ago.
And today, day 1294, on the feisty edges of Storm Dave, I'm listening to the branches of trees next to my boat clacking together like the bones of skeletons 🫣🌬️🍃🛥️
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Free water feature....
An overgrown lock overflow on an English Canal.
Love this !
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An old and weathered red brick bridge straddles a broad canal. In the distance, through the bridge, a patch of reeds brightened gold by the sun can be seen next to the gates of a canal lock. The edge of a narrowboat is glimpsed on the left side of the view
Happy Friday!
A lovely spot to moor up.
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Sunrise rays on reeds
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Drake and wake
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A green day on the cut
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Photo of narrowboats moored against the towpath on a colourful early winter morning.
#boatlife day 527
A spot on the Llangollen that made the news last Christmas when the embankment here failed catastrophically. Interim report on the breach at Whitchurch has been published at canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/docume...
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Photo of the ruins of a stone-built Benedictine priory.
Saw some ruins peaking mysteriously through the trees lining the Coventry Canal at Alvecote as I puttered past, and on further investigation found the remains of the mid-12th century Alvecote Priory.
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Photo of a canal at night, flanked on either side by brick buildings, on the left a two-storey range leading to a five-storey mill with floodlit chimney, and on the right a two-storey property, with modern residential housing beyond.
Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, lined on the left by the former Tolson's Mill, a textile factory built 1886, and on the right by a former Methodist Church, built around the same time.
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Photo of a former toll house overlooking the junction of the Coventry Canal and the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. The Coventry emerges from under a turnover bridge, while the right bank of the Bormingham & Fazeley, which disappears out of shot behind the camera, is lined by a modern industrial building decorated with murals of birds.
Bridge 77 on the Coventry Canal at Fazeley Junction, originally built late-18th century. You have to travel over 5 miles and under another 17 bridges to get to bridge 78.
"Why's that, Shad?"
I'm glad you asked – read on 🧵...
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A narrow canal and cobbled towpath with guardrail over the waters of another canal. The bluesky and clouds are reflected in the wave dappled waters.
Who'd have thought?
Smethwick in Brum.
A really cool place on the cut.
An aqueduct over another canal!
Old Main Line, Engine Arm of Birmingham Canal Navigations over the New Main Line
What a fantastic spot!
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Who'd have thought?
Smethwick in Brum.
A really cool place on the cut.
A railway bridge, the Original Galton Bridge, & Galton Tunnel, all for the New Main Line of Birmingham Canal Navigations.
What a fantastic spot!
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Photo of a modern narrowboat passing between the abutments of a dismantled railway bridge. Beyond the former bridge, a historic working boat that once transported coal from the Coventry coalfields is moored across the entrance of a basin that once served a colliery located next to the canal. Old maps show that the railway which used to cross the canal was a short branch line that linked a brickworks on the right bank with the colliery on the left bank and then connected to the main line railway that runs close to the canal. The Coventry Canal, begun 1768 but not completed until 1790, was part of the original waterway route between the Midlands and London which, unlike many other canals, remained a reasonably profitable commercial waterway into the 20th century, despite competition first from the faster Grand Union Canal route and then the railways.
Brief history of #ukcanals in one image
Modern leisure narrowboat passing between the abutments of a dismantled railway bridge as it approaches a historic working boat moored at the entrance to a basin that served a colliery.
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Photo dominated by the bulbous bow of a historic, working narrowboat sitting high in the water because it is not loaded with the 72 tons it was designed to carry.
Big, brutish working-boat bow of historic NB Nuneaton, built 1936 to work the London–Midlands route, moored across the entrance to a small basin that once served Tamworth Colliery, now a boat yard on the Coventry Canal.
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The BCNS Icicle Cruise this year collaborated with #FundBritainsWaterways to highlight the plight of our waterways
Scenes from yesterday’s BCN Society / #FundBritainsWaterways Icicle campaign cruise to Walsall, highlighting the value of the canals and the threat from inadequate funding
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See today’s Icicle Cruise to Walsall organised by the BCN Society in partnership with #FundBritainsWaterways on ITV Central News from 1:45
www.itv.com/watch/news/c...
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Photo of a narrowboat moored against the towpath as the setting sun turns leafless trees golden. On the opposite bank, an old barge on a hard standing is peaking out from behind a tress, while the bow of a historic working boatmoored on the offside just pokes into the shot.
Golden hour on the Coventry Canal
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