--- In [email protected], "Neil Arlidge" <ne...@...> wrote: > > Julian Tether wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, Neil Arlidge > > <ne...@...> writes > >> ps I have now finally been through Havengore Bridge ;-) > >> http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Stuffimages/Img_4322.jpg > >> > >> ...but as Mr T rightly boasted...I have NOT been up Hedsor Water, > >> behind Cookham Lock, on the Thames, and certainly not in barge :-) > > Who me? > > I said nothing in public! > > I will admit that I did Hedsor in the dinghy as there was not enough > > water to get to the first bridge and I don't think that PG would fit > > between the uprights of the bridge either. > > Whilst we are on this subject today we went round the back of Ham > > Island to the weir below Albert Bridge also in the dinghy that is > > easily doable in the barge but didn't know that until we had been up > > there. > > Now is there anything left between Runnymede and Teddington that is > > still to be done? > > Although above Runnymede, have you done the Loddon?...Ian Clarkie has done > it in his kayak. >
Back in the early 70s I saw a Bates hire boat on the "wrong" side of the A4 bridge with the crew rocking it from side to side and still apparently proceeding towards Twyford. It was not there the next morning. There also used to be a small GRP dayboat that moored on a garden just south of that A4 bridge. I have always assumed the feed mill at Twyford would have been served by water at one time. Lots of backwaters around Oxford need exploring! Tony Brooks
