View from the bridge

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Colin
I'm liking the second one a LOT,it says so much about canal life,well captured :)
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Thanks John.
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My wife gets tired of my saying, "The last time I was here, I was on my bike."

............ but the last time I was going under that bridge or the gas-main, I was on my bike! :D
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colin54 wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 6:56am A great story Mick, it sounds like you are both blessed.
Here's a fuller view of that bridge framing a narrow boat, and another one a bit further along of a narrow boat fuming a bridge. I liked the early morning mist being burned off the surface of the water, and the smoke from the boat's funnel in the second picture, it's laden with fallen branches, bow & stern . A moorhen floats along in the foreground. Bridge 35 between Newburgh and Burscough.
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Lovely photos Colin.
I do miss cycling alongside canals; there's a special atmosphere around them.
I confess I hadn't heard the term "fuming' before.

This was from our last visit.
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fausto copy wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 10:13am I do miss cycling alongside canals; there's a special atmosphere around them.
I confess I hadn't heard the term "fuming' before.

This was from our last visit.
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Grazie Fausto, I love it down 'The Cut', there's always something interesting to see.
The 'fuming' was a clumsy attempt to pair 'bridge frames boat' with 'boat fumes bridge' kind of thing..ho-hum !
It looks a lovely place in your photo', The Llangollen Canal I see, it looks pretty narrow.
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Your description was not at all clumsy; I thought it very clever. :)

The section of the Llangollen canal in my photo is just as it leaves the wharf at the start (end?) of the canal and is very narrow around there, with one section single file.
The weather had improved when I took that photo, starting to head back to our base in Chirk.
Here's what it looked like earlier in the day on our way to Llangollen.

Spot the towpath!
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With apologies from veering from the thread title,
here's the ubiquitous view from the Pontcysyllte Viaduct
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colin54 wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 11:47amThe 'fuming' was a clumsy attempt to pair 'bridge frames boat' with 'boat fumes bridge' kind of thing..ho-hum !
fausto copy wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 1:24pm Your description was not at all clumsy; I thought it very clever.
I liked it too.

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Harwich Lifeboat 'Albert Brown' taken from the flying bridge of her sister lifeboat 'The Will' September '15
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We stopped off at the Pontcysyllte Viaduct enroute to Snowdon before lockdown. Vertigo got the better of me after trecking out onto the viaduct. Mrs rjb had to grab my arm and escort back off the viaduct. I was fine looking straight ahead until she asked me if I was alright. :oops:
Its an area we were not that familiar with but enjoyed the canal at Chirk too, stepping across the border, boats, trains and tunnels, heaven :D
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The first time I visited Pontcysyllte we were walking across the viaduct with me holding on to the barrier handrail.
A chap approached walking his dog and wanted to pass me near to the barrier.
I told him there was no way I was going to leave go and he reluctantly passed closer to the water.

Since then I've crossed it a few times, always pushing my bike and I've invariably walked close to the water.
I think falling in there is probably the lesser of the two evils, but it looks a lot worse facing that way, with no barrier on t'other side of the canal.

The first time we cycled through the long Chirk tunnel, it was pitch black, I didn't have any lights and kept banging my helmet on the brickwork.
I decided it would be better to ride along with my hand resting gently on the handrail.
That was until there was a gap in the rail where it had rusted away and I almost fell in the canal.

Thankfully, when we rode through in May, the rail had been repaired and was a continual length again.
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ncutler wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 2:00pm albert brown.jpg

Harwich Lifeboat 'Albert Brown' taken from the flying bridge of her sister lifeboat 'The Will' September '15
That takes me back a bit.
Harwich (Parkeston Quay) has changed a bit since the mid 70's when I was last there (pre-mass containerisation), two dockers pictured manhandling what look like rolls of paper (probably from Denmark or Sweden) onto a flat bed trailer in the first picture.
Drums of something on the back of the flat bed, and jute sacks full of who knows what, in the foreground of the second pic'.
The 'D' Series Ford tractor unit (doesn't it look small compared to todays lorries), and what looks like a white Ford Corsair (in the background of the first picture) dates it; when was the last time you saw either one of those on the road !?
Different times.
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Two red Jones 355M mobile cranes doing the lifting.
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colin54 wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 5:35pm Two red Jones 355M mobile cranes doing the lifting.
Nice pictures, and that takes me back to something I had forgotten. My favourite toy aged about 6 was a large metal model of a Jones crane, complete with handles to wind the jib and the hook.
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and wonder of wonders, a quick google search and here it is.
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ncutler wrote: 20 Nov 2021, 9:36pm Nice pictures, and that takes me back to something I had forgotten. My favourite toy aged about 6 was a large metal model of a Jones crane, complete with handles to wind the jib and the hook.
I did my apprenticeship at Jones and spent a few years on the road as a Service Engineer (hence the pictures). That Triang toy is loosely based on a KL44 ( Krin & Lahy - K&L who were Steel Founders in Letchworth GC and were the original makers of Jones Cranes until the business split).
The KL44 was all open gears keyed onto on shafts, and clutches operated by rods, heavy old things to work on, very noisy once you engaged the gear train and based on a pre-war design, nominally a four ton lift machine. They were yard cranes and you'd quite often see them in scrap yards with a magnet hanging off the hook. I've got the same toy in my living room lifting a horseshoe ! Still quite cheap for a tin toy, mine was about £20 on ebay not so long ago. This is a picture of one of the last 44's ever made, probably in the early '80's at Letchworth, driven by a 3 cylinder Perkins diesel engine.
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I think I'm correct in saying that they used to cast Centurion Tank turrets in the steel foundry, it was an amazing place.
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View from the top of the Bingley 5 lock rise looking over Salts Mill.
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Swing bridge 191 L&L canal -- provides access to a dairy farm -- we had to wait for the cows to cross -- back from milking I recon.
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Pleased the wife, she loves cows. My youngest getting ready to jump off, cross over and push open the bridge ( done from the non towpath side )
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