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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 12, 2024 7:01:40 GMT
< canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/27385-easenhall-cutting-brinklow-oxford-canal > This latest rubbish 'Update' from the UK's - probably the world's - most 'unfit for purpose' sick joke of a so-called navigation authority, is evidence in itself that these clowns aren't really sure about where this slip actually is, . . let alone how to fix it, or how to re-open the North Oxford to boat traffic, . . without increasing the risk of further slips in the same part of the cutting. The last line of the second paragraph of the 8 March 2024 Update states - " . . . there has also been another minor slip adjacent to the nearby Bridge 84."
From memory - and it is quite a long time ago since I regularly used the North Oxford, . . twice a week, South with loaded and back North with empty boats, in the late 1960's, running between the Warwickshire coalfields and North London area factories and paper mills - but I reckon that (North Oxford) Bridge No. 84 has got to be somewhere around the area, or 'lengths', or 'bridges lengths', of canal, or 'cut', that we used to call Willoughby Turns, . . and that's hardly what could be reasonably described as " nearby", . . unless you happen to be in Willoughby, which is a village, near the canal, roughly between Barby and Braunston. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 12, 2024 15:57:47 GMT
Do you have the w3w address for brinklow cutting, I can't find it on any recent canal maps?
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 12, 2024 16:17:54 GMT
Do you have the w3w address for brinklow cutting, I can't find it on any recent canal maps? No, . . I haven't, . . the address/location for Brinklow Cutting is on a 1960's Map I've got, . . in my head. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 12, 2024 16:21:34 GMT
Do you have the w3w address for brinklow cutting, I can't find it on any recent canal maps? No, . . I haven't, . . the address/location for Brinklow Cutting is on a 1960's Map I've got, . . in my head. 😂😂😂😂 you set em up, I'll tap em in. That's just where a few others think it is too😉 |
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 12, 2024 16:43:39 GMT
Do you have the w3w address for brinklow cutting, I can't find it on any recent canal maps? No, . . I haven't, . . the address/location for Brinklow Cutting is on a 1960's Map I've got, . . in my head. . . . which is where all working/commercial boatmen carried maps of the navigations and canals we lived and carried/worked on. We all knew where we were, and where we were going, . . we didn't need guide books and waterways maps to find our way about, . . not like the wankers who call themselves 'boaters' these days. |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 12, 2024 17:30:13 GMT
I think the work could take a while, it looks like Rothen's have gone to the wrong cutting.  |
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Post by Jim on Mar 12, 2024 18:53:15 GMT
No, . . I haven't, . . the address/location for Brinklow Cutting is on a 1960's Map I've got, . . in my head. . . . which is where all working/commercial boatmen carried maps of the navigations and canals we lived and carried/worked on. We all knew where we were, and where we were going, . . we didn't need guide books and waterways maps to find our way about, . . not like the wankers who call themselves 'boaters' these days. You must be very clever to know about places you've never ever been to before. I know where I've been, a glance at a map and I can remember the major point. I oft claim to have the brain of a pigeon, you must have the brain of a thousand pigeons. Though it seems a few have flown the coop these days. |
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Post by dogless on Mar 12, 2024 18:57:33 GMT
Sadly for you, we have boats ... you have memories.
Rog
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Post by on Mar 12, 2024 18:58:07 GMT
I think this might be near Cathiron Bridge. Back in the day (30 yars ago) I got a taxi from there to Rugby station. The vehicle was a London cab painted white with a white driver. He was a mad driver but it was quite enjoyable.
There is a hoard of gold there quite close to the bridge. I found some remnants of a terrible battle and skeletal hands but I try not to talk about it too much due to the trauma.
A detectorist may well have found the hoard since then. Boat with Lister LR2 engine. Ghosts.
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Post by on Mar 12, 2024 18:59:35 GMT
The electric fence was for people not livestock! This has been one of the most troublesome parts to deal with. The mass grave is by the railway line.
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Post by dogless on Mar 12, 2024 19:05:40 GMT
Bridge 84 is about 12 miles away from Easenhall cutting (whether that qualifies as nearby is subjective I suppose). Cathiron Bridge is number 41 and about two miles from Easenhall cutting ... it's actually by the entrance to Brinklow marina but I don't know if the marina existed back when you're talking about Admiral. Quite a few marinas opened up in the last 10 to 15 years , I would think after you left the canals. Rog |
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Post by Tony Dunkley on Mar 13, 2024 15:34:52 GMT
< canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/27385-easenhall-cutting-brinklow-oxford-canal > This latest rubbish 'Update' from the UK's - probably the world's - most 'unfit for purpose' sick joke of a so-called navigation authority, is evidence in itself that these clowns aren't really sure about where this slip actually is, . . let alone how to fix it, or how to re-open the North Oxford to boat traffic, . . without increasing the risk of further slips in the same part of the cutting. The last line of the second paragraph of the 8 March 2024 Update states - " . . . there has also been another minor slip adjacent to the nearby Bridge 84."
From memory - and it is quite a long time ago since I regularly used the North Oxford, . . twice a week, South with loaded and back North with empty boats, in the late 1960's, running between the Warwickshire coalfields and North London area factories and paper mills - but I reckon that (North Oxford) Bridge No. 84 has got to be somewhere around the area, or 'lengths', or 'bridges lengths', of canal, or 'cut', that we used to call Willoughby Turns, . . and that's hardly what could be reasonably described as " nearby", . . unless you happen to be in Willoughby, which is a village, near the canal, roughly between Barby and Braunston. Anyone discovered the precise location of this second "minor slip" yet ? |
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Post by on Mar 13, 2024 16:10:47 GMT
Uganda.
Nairobi to be more precise !
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 18:05:13 GMT
Bridge 84 is about 12 miles away from Easenhall cutting (whether that qualifies as nearby is subjective I suppose). Cathiron Bridge is number 41 and about two miles from Easenhall cutting ... it's actually by the entrance to Brinklow marina but I don't know if the marina existed back when you're talking about Admiral. Quite a few marinas opened up in the last 10 to 15 years , I would think after you left the canals. Rog Presumably it's a typo and it refers to Bridge 34, which is Easenhall Lane bridge. "Easenhall Lane Bridge No 34 is near or in the village of Brinklow, ¾ mile west and is on the Oxford Canal (Northern Section - Main Line) between Newbold Wharf (3 miles and 4 furlongs to the east) and Brinklow Arm Junction (disused) (1½ furlongs to the north). The nearest place in the direction of Newbold Wharf is All Oaks Visitor Moorings; 1¾ furlongs away". canalplan.uk/place/2dam |
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 13, 2024 18:52:03 GMT
I guess they don't need to tell you where All Oaks Visitor Moorings is though, eh Rog?  |
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