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Tardebigge flight
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Tardebigge
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How not to moor in a short lock pound. Every time the lock below was filled the boat tipped 10 degrees! |
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Tardebigge
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 Navigating round moored boats |
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Tardebigge
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Panorama of the Tardebigge reservoir and the canal. |
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Tardebigge
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 Reservoir cottage |
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Worcester and Birmingham Canal
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Boatyard |
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Tardebigge Tunnel
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 Entering the Tardebigge Tunnel |
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Tardebigge Tunnel
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Strange obstruction, presumably for Halloween |
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Tardebigge Tunnel
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 Strange obstruction moored in the middle of Tardebigge Tunnel |
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Tardebigge Tunnel
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The end |
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Worcester and Birmingham Canal
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Autumnal colours |
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Kings Norton Junction
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 Toll Cottage |
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Kings Norton
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Guillotine stop lock on to Stratford Canal |
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Kings Norton Junction
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 The guillotine stop lock on Stratford Canal |
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Stratford Canal
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Disused swing bridge |
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Brandwood Tunnel
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 Detail over the tunnel portal. |
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Stratford Canal
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Pair of hotle boats |
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Bridge 8 Stratford Canal
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 The end of the road (well canal) for today. The lift bridge is broken and the last passage waas at 4pm, so we're stuck here until tomorrow morning. |
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Stratford Canal
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Bright and early the next morning, the BW man arrived to operate the bridge. It was open for all the boats that had accumulated overnight to go through, so annoyed several motorists by the extended delay to their commute. |
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Stratford Canal
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Stratford Canal
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Stratford Canal
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 Lapworth Locks |
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Stratford Canal
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Lapworth Locks |
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Stratford Canal
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 Kingswood Junction with Grand Union Canal. In fact you can go round in a triangle at this junction, going up and then down a lock as you go. |
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Grand Union Canal
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Branch from Kingswood Jct turns sharp left onto main Grand Union. |
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Grand Union Canal
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 But we did it. |
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Grand Union Canal
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Knowle Locks |
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Grand Union Canal
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 Knowle locks paddle gear (operated by Chris) |
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Grand Union Canal
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Sometimes tying narrow boats together for wide locks doesn't quite work! The wind was gusting very stronly. |
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Grand Union Canal
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Grand Union Canal
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Another incinerator plant |
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Digbeth Branch
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Junction with Grand Union |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Chris & Graffitti |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Well, almost |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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A bit of the tunnel "fell" on the roof |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Approaching Birmingham |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Farmers Bridge flight - under the BT Tower |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Locks ubder the BT Tower and associated buildings |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Map of the centre
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Top of the Farmers Bridge flight - they were building this last time we came by |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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 Carolyn working hard |
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Birmingham & Fazely Canal
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Roundabout just East of Gas St |
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Birmingham
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 View from the "Birmingham Eye" |
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Birmingham
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