AFTER a would-be robber lost his life in the Rochdale Nine (Robber came off worst) once again the call is to prevent people using the towpath of a section of the waterway in an attempt to prevent further incidents.
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IF BOATERS believe they are getting a raw deal from Canal & River Trust, it is nothing compared to the raft of measures being imposed by Waterways Ireland, and there's a barricade actually in place!
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I would just like to say that although the male and a number of cygnets did die last summer at Market Drayton, (regarding Richard Swan's comment) of what we were told was botulism,the female and the other cygnets did survive.
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I was not in the least surprised to read of a narrowboat being stuck under St Oswald's road bridge in Chester.
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THE 'silly season' in the newspaper world of old was in August, when people cleared off to pastures new for a bit of a holiday, and so news was somewhat lax, the result being that 'silly' items were included to fill space.
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WANTING to blow the cobwebs away I have tramped the towpaths of various parts of the Trent & Mersey Canal over the past three days as I want to produce a blog of pictures.
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THE scheme for volunteer lock keepers seems to have produced mixed experiences, if the recent piece on narrowboatworld is anything to go by. As that article mentioned, we had one very welcome experience this year and a couple where they made very little difference.
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THOUGH there have been favourable comments, there have been many complaints about the attitude towards boaters of volunteers assisting at locks during the past season, with some seemingly 'power-mad', whilst others are just not capable.
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ON READING the recent article (Parry on Forgery and Fraud) I was very disconcerted over what came across as insincere comments from Richard Parry in response to Allan Richards' article alleging forgery of a CaRT land holdings map, the Terrier Map for Brentford, writes Del Brenner.
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