We set off around 11.00 and made our way to Plank Bridge Lift Bridge. I may have broken the record for holding cars up as the instructions on how to work the bridge were very difficult to read as the sun was on the screen, however I got the bridge to open and close and counted 20 vehicles waiting to cross. We had a lovely cruise up to the Dover Lock Bridge and moored for the evening.
Friday morning we set off for the first locks we have done for a while. The locks on the Leeds & Liverpool do leak a lot.It would not take much to reduce the leaks if CRT tried, just a piece of timber fixed to the rebates would reduce this and may even extend the life of the lock gates.
We done 3 locks and then moored for water by the new CRT offices. I popped in to have a chat about the Wigan Flight of locks as we will be going up them early August. Very Helpful indeed.
We carried on through Wigan and moored in Crooke right by another pub, It was very busy all afternoon and early evening.
Saturday we left Crooke mid-morning and had planned to stop at Appley Bridge for the day but it was such a good day cruising we carried on to Parbold. We passed under this motorway but not sure what one it is.
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| Motorway and Disused Lock. |
As we approached Parbold we saw lots of tents in a field and when we asked a passing lady what's going on she told us it was the village fate.So after mooring we went for a look around the fate. However we did not expect to see domestic violence at a village fate. We witnessed this terrible behaviour from a man who was being really horrible to his wife and this escalated to him hitting her with a stick, well everyone was shocked at this but luckily a passing policeman intervened.
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| The man being spoken to by the Police |
I got to hold a very large Bengal owl he really was a fantastic looking animal. We enjoyed having a walk around the fate it was nice to see so many people enjoying the sunshine.
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| Afternoon Treat |
Sunday we left Parbold and enjoyed the cruise up to Burscough and moved in to another county.
We passed a lot of boats today and it seems most have been to Liverpool.
Burscough has a very handy Tesco store just a short walk from the canal and Sharon went to for some supplies. Today Monday its raining so we are staying put for the day relaxing.
Time Travelled Thursday 2 Hrs Distance 3.5 Miles
Time Travelled Friday 5 Hrs Distance 5 Miles 6 Locks
Time Travelled Saturday 3 Hrs Distance 4 Miles 2 Locks
Time Travelled Sunday 2 Hrs Distance 4.5 Miles
Total Distance Travelled is 419.5. Miles
83 Locks (Broad) 197 single locks and 17 tunnel's, 1 Massive Lock
Total Tunnel length 9097 yards
Total Time 261 hours
Total Time 261 hours
AND WE OUR LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT
We both hope you did not get hyper active after your Ice cream look at the colouring in it
ReplyDeleteBit of mastic and gaffa tape will sort the locks out!!!!!!
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