Lucky you, we had to dig t'canal first b'fore we could use it ;)
--- In [email protected], Martin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Keens, Graham, VF UK - Technology (RO) wrote...
> >Arthur wrote
> >>Steve Haywood wrote
> >>> From: "Michael Askin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>But I did read somewhere recently (it may even have been
> >>>>here) of a report from about 1840 of one point on the BCN
> >>>>passing 400 boats a day.
>
> >>>Pshaw. That's nothing compared to Cropredy lock on
> >>>a Bank Holiday Monday.
>
> >>" In my day we thought we were very lucky if there was a
> >>queue of only 400 boats at Colwich lock at 7 o'clock on
> >>a winter's morning. "
> >
> >Nah! When I wer't lad we'd queue for 5 days for Fradley lock in't
middle
> >o'winter.
> >
> Locks? You were lucky you had locks! When we was little, we had to
queue
> at Fradley for 5 days in't middle o'winter, wi' nowt on us feet,
and
> then we had to push the boat up the hill on rollers...
> --
> Martin Clark
>
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