> I've just sent the following to B.W at Wigan and await a response.
>  
> I know it's an old one, but once again why on earth do people buy a house 
> alongside a canal with no thought about the use of the 'cut?
>  
> Please could we ask what authority has the owner of the former lock keepers 
> cottage at Greenberfield top lock over, whom, and for how long, they moor 
> their boat between the water point and the lock landing?
>  


Reminds me of the case of the owner of a very large string of dealerships in a 
very well known make of car who wanted to live out in the country. Once living 
in the country he found that his very large, posh car was getting regularly 
splattered with a pungent by product of bovine agriculture. Remedy - take out 
an injunction against farmer to prevent him use of the lanes by his cows. 
Result- a near apoplectic judge who well and truly told the car dealer that if 
he chose to live in the country he must expect to meet country by products. All 
power to the farmer and ditto the legitimate boater!
True story.
John

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