Category Archives: UK

Birstall to Foxton Locks

Bit of a lay in, then a quick look at Birstall, have to say not impressed, lots of hairdressers, barbers, but not a lot else, except a big Co-op, so we had a lazy day, catching up with post etc., … Continue reading

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Shardlow to Newark on Trent

We noted in “Nicholson’s” there was Canal Museum here in Shardlow but couldn’t see it, so set off straight after breakfast heading towards Nottingham. After passing through the floodgates we were onto the actual River Trent, the 3rd longest river … Continue reading

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Fradley Junction to Shardlow

Friday, and we up fairly early as we expected our Electrical Engineer to arrive around 0900hrs and apart from clearing breakfast things away, we had to empty the two large cupboards at the stern. As it turned out it was … Continue reading

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Stoke-On-Trent – Fradley Junction

We left first thing in the morning, as we are re-tracing our steps, looking for places that we can go, as the canals are all closing, due to shortage of water. We stopped at Stone again, Geoff treated me to … Continue reading

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Caldon Canal

Marian and Russell arrived at 10.00am and we quickly went to Tesco for some fuel for the Generator and some food for us, we then had a coffee before Marian left, with a big bag of our washing, very grateful … Continue reading

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Stone to Stoke on Trent

Sunday morning we dropped Pat off at Stone railway station and headed back to the boat through the high street, again another town centre packed with charity shops. Apart from venturing out to Morrison’s, we stayed in and around the … Continue reading

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