Roger Millin wrote: > For those that may be interested our experiences travelling west > through the two areas above on the L&L on our way south to the > GiG are as follows:- > Burnley was no problem at all from the yob perspective, in fact > 90% of the towpath walkers were friendly, the rest indifferent. > The water though, was filthy, lots of rubbish and much clearing > of the prop. When we stopped for the day at Hapton I removed the > weed hatch to find a large amount of, mainly, plastic bag remains. > Having been told the reputation of Blackburn we tried to get to > the locks just after school would have started for the morning on > Monday. The locks and water were all excellent for an urban area. > We got to the last (lowest) lock at about 11.30 when a group of > three youths (aged 11 - 14, not in school uniform) accompanied by > a group of three girls (aged 9 - 11, in school uniform) arrived > and started hanging around and watching with intent. It didn't > look good, but fortunately they seemed to lose interest and moved > on, pausing only to throw an empty plastic coke bottle at a grandad > and grandson who were fishing at the lock entrance ( that is, one of > the girls paused to throw the bottle). It's possible that the > presence of the two fishermen put them off any action that they were > thinking of taking, but I can't be sure. Quite what they were doing > out of school at that time, I'm not sure. At least, travelling at > that time, we didn't get the drunks that we warned about by a local, > to make our trip more awkward. The local told us that the bottom > lock is now nicknamed 'suicide lock' due to the number of drunks > that have been fished out of it.
Looking back at my logs for 2004, I see I passed through Burnley around the middle of the day on a Tuesday, and Blackburn during the middle of the following day. Had no problems with the local yoof at either location. In fact, the 'official' bandit country is from Leeds to Newlay locks, and I saw no evidence of trouble there either. Terry Streeter NB Arun - Birmingham ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/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/
