CRUISING on the Avon a narrowboat came to a sudden halt—it had hit a Landrover!
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WITHIN the space of a few days there have been two incidents of 'chairs' rolling into the waterways together with their occupants, but both luckily had people to pull them out.
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THOUGH not of course aware of the condition of the pumps supplying the pound at Bradford-on-Avon on the Kennet & Avon Canal, the many failures surely point to them needing replacing.
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THE water point at Tyle Mill on the Kennet & Avon Canal is our of action as the tap is missing, and was first thought to have been stolen.
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THE engineers working to repair Plank Lane Lift Bridge on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal are still awaiting parts.
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THE biggest restriction to the completion of the restoration of the Chesterfield Canal is Norwood Tunnel, that collapsed due to mining subsidence in 1907, ending passage from the Trent to Chesterfield.
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THOUGH this week's closure number five at Selby where a swing bridge over the Ouse failed, was attended to very quickly, however closure number six will take much longer.
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A MAN let go of the wheelchair in which his wife was sitting, and not having been first braked, it rolled and landed in the Llangollen Canal near the town.
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WATERWAY closure number five this week that was on the Ouse at Selby, was very quickly attended to.
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THE Waterways Recovery Group (WRG) is short of work and is now looking for waterway restoration projects that would benefit from a Canal Camp next year.
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