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Bobbing Boat

I'm below the Macclesfield canal breach on the Trent & Mersey. Between the breach and me are 12 locks plus the stop lock where the Macclesfield joins the Trent & Mersey.

A #StopLock was to collect tolls at the #junction of canals of different owners. For example, Gas Street Basin had a stop #lock where an act of UK parliament forced a junction. For 20 years, Birmingham Canal Network had refused access to Worcester & Birmingham #canal, so goods had to switch boats over 65 feet of land!

#boating
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Bobbing Boat

The Macclesfield Canal has broken through its bank. This is called a breech. Or is it spelled breach?

It's pants either way.

(That's a pun only Brits and Aussies will understand. Breeches are a type of trousers. The expression "it's pants" means "it's unpleasant". A breach is a rupture.)

For comparison, last year's Lancaster breach cost £1,600,000 to repair.

CRT will update us today:
canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

canalrivertrust.org.ukNavigation and Towpath Closure: Between Crowholt Bridge 52 and Locketts Bridge 53, Macclesfield CanlDue to a leak in the canal bed, we have closed navigation and the towpath between Bridge 52 Crowholt Bridge and Bridge 53 Locketts Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal.Our teams are currently on-site installing stop planks to enable a thorough inspection of the leak. We are also contacting customers moored in the affected area.We will provide a further update on Monday, 31st March.
#CanalLife#canal#breach
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Nigel Stanley

3/5 #infrared miscellany

Here's a footbridge across the Grand Union #Canal in Boston Manor (w London). It's "probably by Thomas Telford" - the great civil engineer - and dates from 1820. Cast at Horseley Iron Works near Birmingham.

It may have taken its name from a man found hanged in #BostonManor woods, c. 17th century.

#Konica35mmf2 lens on my #fullspectrum Sony A7ii.

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#photography #blackandwhitephotography #naturephotography #ClassicMono

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Bobbing Boat

Spring is here. No more freezing weather, so I can refill the water tank and plumbing, and start the spring cleaning.

All winter, I've been filling a 5-litre water dispenser for drinking water. I've been using the toilet block to keep me and the dishes clean. Now I can do all that on board again.

The water tank has a stainless steel flange and cap which unscrews. A standard garden hose (or hose pipe) fills the water tank.

Photo of a stainless-steel flange (a fancy hole) and its threaded cap. The hole leads to a boat's water tank. The cap has been unscrewed and is upside down on the grey, steel forewell deck, beside the flange. It has a small, black, rubber O-ring, which will form a seal when the cap is screwed back into the flange. Stuck into the tank is a garden hose (hose pipe), to fill it. You can't hear it, but the water is rushing into the tank.
#CanalLife#canal#boating
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Cara Bruar

#WordWeavers 24. Share the worldbuilding fact you’re most proud of.
I worked out the distances and elevations for an imaginary canal with locks that would run between Lake George and Yass. This was done in 2014, for a book I still have not finished, set in an alternate but not very different Australia, my Detective Jud Jeffreys series.
Back around the 1880s in real life there was a plan to run pipes more or less along this route and create a huge irrigation system spreading out west as far as Cootamundra. Silly idea.

Satellite image from Google Earth showing Lake George, New South Wales as a grey area on the right, with the escarpment and hills showing dark green from trees, and flat green areas further on the left showing the flatter valley of Brooks Creek. Yellow pins mark the location of the (imaginary) Brunel's Cut, an excavation through the escarpment at the location of the real life Geary's Gap. At the bottom of the image is a profile diagram showing the elevations of the cut. I imagine it would look something like the Corinth Canal if it was built.
Map background with the route of a proposed (imaginary) canal marked in black over the blue line of the (real) Yass River. Lock locations are shown as circles with distance from the last lock marked. I worked this out based on the slope of the terrain. Mostly it is quite flat.
#canal#worldbuilding#australia
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