"dhsrcragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Just back from this years trip I cannot recall the canals being in a > worst state. Without going into massive detail the one thing that we > noticed again and again is how shallow the most used routes had become > over much of their lengths. > > This shallowing is really noticable on what is the main link-route > from north to south. From Heywood (wot no toilets at this busy junction > BW!) along the Trent and Mersey to Fradley (with its joke moorings and > shop where you can have coffee while boaters stroll through with their > elsans) Then down the Coventry (passing the local BW HQ with room for > one boat only outside and BW men at work trimming the office hedge). > Then on to the Oxford boat (where the African Queen would fit in well). > And all the way we see boat after boat on the move - stirring up the mud > behind as try even manage a slow walking place to get from A to B. >
You will be pleased to know that BW/contractors are dredging the Oxford down beloe Allen's Lock -- Brian from Sunny Suffolk
