Phil Rushton wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil Arlidge" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 11:58 PM > Subject: [canals-list] Re: Visitor moorings in Llangollen > > >> Phil Rushton wrote: >>> I was fascinated to read Richard Fairhurst's article in the >>> July edition of WW regarding old Waterways guides. I have >>> a set of the first edition blue books but haven't looked at >>> them for years (thanks, Richard for bringing back the >>> memories! - and prompting me to dig them out of the attic). >>> >>> In recent years I have told several friends that the visitor >>> moorings in Llangollen used to be immediately east of >>> bridge 45 but nobody believed me. Thanks to your article >>> I can now show them book 1, or the photo on page 107 >>> of WW which clearly shows two moored boats. >>> I know the canal at that point does not now look wide >>> enough for boats to pass. I was wondering whether the >>> canal might have been narrowed slightly at that place >>> during bank strengthening works? Also typical boats >>> today are more than twice the length they were in the 60's. >>> >>> Does anyone else remember that wonderful mooring >>> overlooking the town? >> >> Yes and I know that you remember the mooring at the *real* end! ;-) >> http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/H72_Imag/Llan1.jpg > > Thanks for that photo Neil. Unfortunately, I rarely carried a > camera in those days. > It must have been about 1965 when we nudged up against > the valvehouse wall. > We had to bowhaul (or rather *sternhaul*) the boat backwards > for ½ mile before we could wind. I got in trouble for taking > several strides backwards through freshly placed concrete > alongside the Chainbridge Hotel :-)
We got all the way up under power, but dragged it back until we could wind. ISTR that the chef in the Chainbridge Hotel came out threatening us with a cleaver......just as well our Ladyline hireboat was re-named and incognito. -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (on the drawing board) Follow the traveled TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
