On Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:03 PM [GMT+1=CET], David Cragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I seem to remember that heading north on the GU at around B104 above > Braunston but before Wigrams that, according to his book, John Lilly > in Arthur got jammed in a bridge hole. After much use of chisels to > free him from the bridge - narrowed with BW concrete edging he had to > retreat south. Arthur was a Liverpool short boat - however wide they > are. But is the concrete still there? The section between Braunston & Wigrams was never part of the GU. When the GJC and the Warwick canals (and others) amalgamated in 1929, the link between them remained in the ownership of the Oxford Canal. The narrow stop lock at Braunston was taken out to allow the passage of broad-beam boats, and I though the trak of the linking section was supposed to have been widened to GJC standards - but then the northern part of the GJC had never been successful with broad-beam craft (see mu earlier posting). And, of course, when the locks on the former Warwick Canals were replaced by broad ones, the track didn't have a corresponding widening and several of the brodgeholes trhere remained at about 12 foot, which wouldn't take a short-boat. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
