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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Good morning, truly hoping everyone is enjoying their long Bank Holiday weekend (hopefully not too badly affected by Dave) - a couple of photographs I took during Buster the Boat Dog's walk this morning.
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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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What a lovely welcome to April, wild primroses by the Shropshire Union canal near Brewood.
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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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Moving day - onto the Shropshire Union canal; we're currently moored at the pretty village of Brewood (pronounced - Brood). The Shroppie Shelf here is significant!
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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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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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A misty start this morning on the canal, fortunately have had a sunny day once it cleared
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Trees reflected in canal water
On the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, near Coven. When walking this morning, at the end of the narrows - really am so thankful to live in such #NarrowboatCommunity #photography
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Photo of a bright yellow narrowboat with red stern canopy and the words "Today is a good day" stencilled into the back of the stern, moored against the towpath with more boats moored on the offside beyond, on a spring day just as the sun is burning off the morning mist.
Today is a Good Day on the Coventry Canal
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Buster the Boat Dog wondering why we were taking so long at a routine water filling stop.
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Daffodils in the foreground and a Narrowboat going under a bridge behind
Getting ready for a famous victory by England Rugby later today - a beautiful spring morning here on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, Wolverhampton.
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Photo of a hire boat moving past moored boats on a bright spring day along the Coventry Canal
Always a pleasure to see the hire boats coming out of hibernation🌱
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Sounds of the waterways....
Spring on the cut.
Narrowboat roof garden
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