----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Reed" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] RE: Ice
>A great game when I was a lad and the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal froze > over was to ride bikes on it. > Especially daring was to cycle at speed through the bridge holes. The > current was faster there due to the restriction in width which meant the ice > was thinner. So if you were too slow you went in. > > Much later, grown up with a car now, I once rescued a lad who had fallen > through ice which was not as thick as he had thought. We gave him a lift > home, but he wanted dropping off around the corner to see if he could sneak > in without his mother catching him!! > All the best, > Martin Reed. Can you remember the Winter of 1963? I was only 22 and worked in Widnes. The later part of the cold spell was Bright sunshine even though the temperature was about -10C. It went down to -15C in the night. I live in Warrington so I got a half day off work one morning and skated the 10 miles to work on the Sankey Canal (I walked round the bridges). I got a lift home. It wouldn't have been fun in the dark. 8^) Oh to be foolish and 22 again. Dave Croft Warrington http://www.oldengine.org/members/croft/ http://community.webshots.com/user/crftdv
