Four years without water

WE ALL know that nowadays British Waterways seem to have little interest in boaters' facilities, and have read of sanitary stations and the like being non-operational or even closed down.

But the record must surely go to the water tap at Tyrley on the Shropshire Union Canal, that is at last operational, after being without water for over four years!

The newly sited tap took most of last week to install by contractors, but was finally turned on for boaters' use on Monday night, Richard Hall tells us, with the picture below showing the first boater to use it.

Not so lucky for the water point at Goldstone Wharf however, that was installed to replace the one at Tyrley that has not been working, for it still has to be connected, owing to a dispute between British Waterways and Severn Trent Water.