A Lost Riverside Opportunity Having visited Bedford by car in the past, I can thoroughly recommend a visit by boat. It’s a very interesting town however it does have a diabolical traffic problem and a significant empty shops problem, but…
Sleaford Navigation 2015 & 19
One of our main reasons for going to the Witham so early in 2015 was to attend the Sleaford Navigation Trust (SNT) www.sleafordnavigation.co.uk annual boat rally and explore the Sleaford Navigation which runs up from the Witham at Chapel Hill, where it is often known…
Old Bedford River Campaign Cruise Aug 2018 with the IWA
This Old Bedford River campaign cruise turned out to be a surprisingly delightful experience and it didn’t take me long to understand why this neglected and apparently remote navigation has such a large and passionate group of supporters. The adjacent…
River Wey Navigation
The rural River Way Navigation is one of the UK’s older canals. Built in 1653 it pre dates Britain’s industrial canal system by over a 100 years. Yet interestingly it was still carrying commercial traffic up until the 1970s. The…
Under the Thames with the Brunels
After a day in the City I decided to take Sue, to re-visit Wapping Underground Stn. (how romantic I hear you say!) a vital link in my epic trips across London as a teenager on Fridays night to the “Prospect of Whitby”. Metro from…
Cardiff Bay, Penarth Dock & River Ely,
Cardiff Bay Barrage, Tidal Locks, Cycle way and Lift Bridges. Cardiff Bay Locks with lift bridge There are 3 locks in the Barrage two are 8m wide and 1 is 10.5m wide, all are 40m long. The sector gates are…
Stratford Canal (South)
At the beginning of September we attended the Bi-Annual UK meeting of the Australian Canal Society at the Blue Lias (Pub) at Stockton Bridge on the GU Canal. In addition to a great meeting of the UK friends of the…
Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
Late September morning in Gloucester Docks. The outline of the first of the canal’s lift bridges can just be seen on the right. Sun is out, time to go! The first mile or so of canal is industrial then, it is enveloped…
Witham Navigation & Billinghay Skirth, Lincoln to Billinghay
Lincoln still has a good Market Hall which is where Sue spent the morning, I went to the Lincolnshire Archives to check out a few facts about our destination Bellingham Skirth, so we did not leave our Glory Hole mooring and enter…
Fossdyke Navigation. Saxilby to Lincoln
Lincoln Cathedral from the navigation. The waterway from Saxilby to Lincoln was very much, more of the same, but with the misty outline of Lincoln’s Cathedral and Castle visible for most of the way. Then suddenly the Cathedral views vanish as the CRT long…