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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2021 10:43:05 GMT
I think it was that engine yes as don't recall it being a clonky noise at least not until it hit the top gates of an empty Molesey lock.
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Post by kris on Jun 6, 2021 10:49:02 GMT
That engine is still in the boat.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 6, 2021 11:15:48 GMT
Tony’s silence is deafening. Were wooden L&L boats before that referred to as short boats, even at the opening of the canal? TonyDunkley cut the ribbon, he will know. The canal was built with 'short' locks from Leeds to Wigan, and 'long' locks - 10 feet longer - from Wigan to Liverpool, . . so there always were two types of L&L canal boats, the Short Boat and the Long Boat, which sometimes were called "Wiganners". As for the opening ceremony when the canal was finally finished, from what I can remember it was a very frugal, cut-price job because the construction had taken years longer than it should have done and gone way over budget, . . so there was no money left for fancy extravagancies like ribbons to be cut !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2021 11:46:22 GMT
Were wooden L&L boats before that referred to as short boats, even at the opening of the canal? TonyDunkley cut the ribbon, he will know. The canal was built with 'short' locks from Leeds to Wigan, and 'long' locks - 10 feet longer - from Wigan to Liverpool, . . so there always were two types of L&L canal boats, the Short Boat and the Long Boat, which sometimes were called "Wiganners". As for the opening ceremony when the canal was finally finished, from what I can remember it was a very frugal, cut-price job because the construction had taken years longer than it should have done and gone way over budget, . . so there was no money left for fancy extravagancies like ribbons to be cut ! I know you are old but I didn't realise you were old enough to be at the L&L opening ceremony 😱
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Post by angelo1728 on Jun 6, 2021 12:27:27 GMT
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Post by TonyDunkley on Jun 6, 2021 18:29:20 GMT
The canal was built with 'short' locks from Leeds to Wigan, and 'long' locks - 10 feet longer - from Wigan to Liverpool, . . so there always were two types of L&L canal boats, the Short Boat and the Long Boat, which sometimes were called "Wiganners". As for the opening ceremony when the canal was finally finished, from what I can remember it was a very frugal, cut-price job because the construction had taken years longer than it should have done and gone way over budget, . . so there was no money left for fancy extravagancies like ribbons to be cut ! I know you are old but I didn't realise you were old enough to be at the L&L opening ceremony 😱 There are a good many things that you would come to "realise", if you were blessed with even moderate ability to read and understand what's being said on a thread you're following, . . AND the posts that are being replied to ! The same goes for your fellow vacuous idiot who's voted your stupid comment a thumbs-up !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2021 18:48:19 GMT
I know you are old but I didn't realise you were old enough to be at the L&L opening ceremony 😱 There are a good many things that you would come to "realise", if you were blessed with even moderate ability to read and understand what's being said on a thread you're following, . . AND the posts that are being replied to ! The same goes for your fellow vacuous idiot who's voted your stupid comment a thumbs-up ! My comment was made in humour but I don't expect you know what that is. Daft old twunt that you are.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2021 18:49:29 GMT
And I was like
Yeah yeah yeah
Isn't it ?
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Post by Andyberg on Jul 5, 2021 7:19:34 GMT
Saw this pic on the local site yesterday…Apparently taken at the Plox Brow bridge just before Mayors Yard / Douglas Locks in 1930 (River Douglas to the right of boats beyond the hedges) Anyone know anything about them?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 8:05:46 GMT
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Post by angelo1728 on Jul 6, 2021 12:43:07 GMT
First time I have seen short boats with rollers for warping. Would this mean they carried from Liverpool Docks. Note also the loaded water marks along the hull Rufford Line was notorious for being shallower than the main line.
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Post by pluto on Jul 7, 2021 18:58:03 GMT
These boats are almost certainly owned by Suttons & Co, who operated from Tarleton, carrying to both places on the L&LC and to Preston, Freckleton and Lytham. They used old boats, including quite a few ex-L&LC boats, both dumb and steamers, and I have a list of around thirty boats which they owned over the years. One traffic they carried was stone from the Appley area for the training walls on the Ribble. The flats seen here are fairly typical of the smaller flats used in the area, though the paintwork is very much L&LC based. Boats based on the canal were much more highly decorated than those working just around the coast. Mayors moved to the dockyard above Tarleton Lock in 1927, where they used the old railway wharf, with some of the track used for the new slip, there was just one originally. Previously their yard had been below the lock, where the old half tide lock had been, and where coal and limestone used to be transhipped before the canal was extended from Sollom to Tarleton. The Wharf House and Lock House both survive.
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Post by Jim on Jul 7, 2021 19:21:25 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Jul 7, 2021 19:34:19 GMT
That first picture is a cracker Jim !!!
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Post by Jim on Jul 7, 2021 19:38:24 GMT
That first picture is a cracker Jim !!! TD on the back deck... In his best frock.
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