----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Arlidge" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 6:09 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Ice
> Ray Butler wrote: >> "Adrian Stott" wrote Thu Jan 1, 2009 7:00 am (PST) >> >> I've seen the cut below Hertford lock freeze only once in the >15 >> years I have moored downstream of it. However, I've never seen a >> flowing section of the Lea freeze. >> >> In January 1981 I was moored on "Lupin" at the bottom of Ware lock on >> the Lea, and on getting up to open a window because the stove + 2 >> Aladdin paraffin lamps were making it too hot in the cabin (!) I >> noticed that the river was freezing as it came over the weir there. >> >> The flowing section was about 4 inches deep in ice during that frost. >> >> I have in my youth broken ice 3 inches thick on the canal section >> above Waltham Common Lock (With someone else's boat!) > > Yes, it is always much more fun to go ice breaking in someone else's boat > ;-) > Neil Arlidge - NB Jannock - chief blacking remover Hi Neil, you will have to volunteer if Ellesmere Port Museum decide to demonstrate Marbury in action. 8^) http://www.canaljunction.com/news/mainline03.htm -- Dave Croft Warrington http://www.oldengine.org/members/croft/ http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
