We passed this way in July and met a chap at Compton lock who was visually surveying the area above the lock as his company had just agreed a contract for 'temporary soft edging' above the lock. We suggested to the gent that a metal edge would be safer for boats here but, as he said, it's BW who decide and pay us so we do what they want - whatever we might feel. There is a load of recently added (last year) edging a bit further on from the lock towards the railway bridge. We, at that time saw this being installed with one bloke in the water in waders using a large (wooden) mallet to hammer the stakes in while others held things in place. The pace of work was more BW than contractor and they all seemed to be in BW costume but, seeing this waste of manpower we felt clown gear would be better! (The chief clown being the person who thought up this approach.) --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Bruce Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Compton To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 8:16 AM On 8 Aug 2008, at 22:42, rb999sb wrote: > Bruce have BW fixed the H&S hazzard above Compton lock. The > undergrowth > had been cut fairly recently but there were holes all over the > place on > the bank where we moored. > We did report but left soon after. Sorry - didn't use that bit of towpath, and there were moored boats all along there, so couldn't see. 末 All the best Bruce There are no strangers on the cut, only boaters we've yet to meet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
