John Slee wrote... >--- In [email protected], Bruce Napier <br...@...> wrote: >> >> Derek on Gypsy Rover reckons Bridge 1 on the Coventry is the smallest >> on the system >We wrote the same on our Epiphany Blog on 16th February - there's a >picture as we went through the bridge: see > >http://nbepiphany.co.uk/jcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i >d=237:the-back-story&catid=44:journey-blogs&Itemid=119 > Looking at the photo of your boat "squeezing" through the bridge I think it is not at all clear that it is the smallest bridge! Why - you've still got your chimney up and a luggage box on the roof, with plenty of room to spare!
It will feel small because of not having a towpath, but it doesn't look particularly narrow when you compare with some of the lock tail bridges on the Peak Forest, Huddersfield or other narrow canals. It looks low enough for the steerer to have to duck but there are plenty of other bridges where that is also true. For instance, gang planks on roofs often scrape the top of the new bridge at Old Bank in Slaithwaite. Isn't the bridge on the Bumble Hole Arm pretty low? (although not particularly narrow) (or am I thinking of another one nearby?) > - the information comes from Coventry Canal Society Guide to Coventry >City Basin, which is displayed on one of the walls in the Basin. > Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? I'm sure some of their members believe it but that doesn't make it so! -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
