From Fazeley Visitor Moorings (Tolson’s Mill) to Rugeley North Visitor Moorings, a distance of 18 miles, 4¼ flg and 3 locks. Unlike central Birmingham it was nice and quiet over night in Fazeley, and although the weather wasn’t perfect when we woke up it wasn’t raining. Start : Fazeley Visitor Moorings (Tolson\’s Mill) Finish : […]
From Sheepcote Street Visitor Moorings to Fazeley Visitor Moorings (Tolson’s Mill), a distance of 15 miles, 4½ flg and 38 locks. Mooring on the visitor moorings on the main line in Birmingham is not one of the best places to stop – it was noisy for most of the night : either with people heading […]
From Coalbourne Brook Bridge to Sheepcote Street Visitor Moorings, a distance of 20 miles, 4¼ flg and 25 locks. We got up to overcast skies and we just knew the weather was no going to be good. We headed off up the arm and turned at the Closed Arm to the old Iron Works before […]
From High Green Bridge No 14 to Coalbourne Brook Bridge, a distance of 20 miles, 6½ flg and 23 locks. It was a nice sunny day when we got up and took another look at the wiring. Nick had had an idea over night – he suspected he’d not reconnected the main engine negative… He […]
From Ladybird Moorings to High Green Bridge No 14, a distance of 21 miles, 6¼ flg and 6 locks. After an easy drive up via The Falcon at Hinstock on Wednesday evening we went and tried Market Drayton’s newest pub – The William Chester. It’s a really rather nice pub and it feels like its […]
Our, now almost traditional, September boating holiday this year sees us heading south and then up through Birmingham before swinging round through Rugeley and Penkridge. Turn Round Here : Stourbridge Visitor Moorings Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight at : High Green Bridge No 14 Overnight at : Coalbourne Brook Bridge Overnight at : […]
Turn Round Here : Wheelock Winding Hole Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight at : Hoolgrave Bridge No 11 Overnight at : Wheelock Visitor Moorings Overnight at : Nantwich Visitor Moorings (south) We’d planned a long weekend to Sandbach and then it turned out it was the same weekend as one of our friend’s […]
From Nantwich Visitor Moorings (south) to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 11 miles, 4¼ flg and 22 locks. We made pretty good time from Nantwich to Audlem Bottom Lock No 27 and started to work our way up the locks. Start : Nantwich Visitor Moorings (south) Finish : Ladybird Moorings There weren’t really many boats […]
From Wheelock Visitor Moorings to Nantwich Visitor Moorings (south), a distance of 19 miles, 7½ flg and 9 locks. It was another pretty grey and overcast day when we got up and oddly enough no-one else seemed to be thinking of moving, and it wasn’t long before it started raining again and so we made […]
From Hoolgrave Bridge No 11 to Wheelock Visitor Moorings, a distance of 12 miles, 2 flg and 9 locks. It was raining when we got up, the sky was a uniform grey but at least it wasn’t too cold. It stopped raining quite quickly but the clouds didn’t clear – and that sort of set […]