Besides being the Captain and stockman of the Wool Boat Colin also likes to try his hand photography, and canal’s are the natural subject.
Page updated 26.3.2021 with a couple of images of lock repair work at Wheelton that where published in the April 2021 edition of Towpath Talk
Quite a few of these photos we reproduce as A5 greetings cards which are available from The Wool Boat
As part of the winter 2020 -21 maintaince programme the Canal and River Trust are about to start fitting new bottom gates to the top lock on the Wheelton flight of locks near Chorley on the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Here some CRT lads are putting in stop planks into the grooves just above the top gates of the lock, These planks will be used to stop the water flowing into the lock while the work is going on. The hiab crane they are using to lift the wooden beams that are the stop planks is working from a work boat that is in the lock. The canal is closed to boat navigation and a safety fence has been put into place around the lock though the tow path remains open. This is lock no 58 of the canal. Image Cw 7476 copyright Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations This image was published in the April 2021 edition of Towpath Talk on page 10. Read the article it was with here
As part of the winter 2020 -21 maintaince programme the Canal and River Trust are about to start fitting new bottom gates to the top lock on the Wheelton flight of locks near Chorley on the Leeds and Liverpool canal. These are the new gates waiting at the side of the next lock down the canal. Once the time has come to fit them they will be reloaded back onto a work boat and floated up to the top lock which is just beyond bridge in the distance. These new wooden gates are quite heavy at 35 tons each. The canal is closed to boat navigation and a safety fence has been put into place around the lock though the tow path remains open. Image Cw 7477 copyright Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations.
This image was published in the April 2021 edition of Towpath Talk on page 10. Read the article it was with here
The spring daffodils are blooming alongside the swing bridge at New Lane near Burscough on the Leeds and Liverpool canal in Lancashire. This swing bridge is being operated, by pushing a button to work the electrics and hydraulics, by a mate of the lady who is steering the narrow boat. Warning lights and barriers come down to stop the road traffic to allow the canal traffic to pass. Photo image Cw 7536 Copyright Colin Wareing
On Tuesday the 23th March 2021 the Canal and River Trust revealed their plans for the repairs to Toddbrook reservoir at Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire. Within in the new plans the proposed new spillway channel will run across the front of these headquarters of Toddbrook sailing club, close to the line of the track in front of the building. This will mean that this building will need to be relocated, probably a few meters further back up the slope. Image Cw 7513 copyright Colin Wareing of Colin and Carole’s Creations Published in Towpath Talk May 2021
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