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Liverpool and Back
This is the planned route but it may well change closer to the time, or even during the holiday as the timing are very easy and we know we’ll be able to do a lot more than this during the … Continue reading
Mr Blue Sky
From Fox Bridge No 52 to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 4 miles, 5¾ flg and 5 locks. It made a change to be woken up not by the sound of rain on the roof but by the sound of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, May Bank Holiday, Trips
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We don’t need a weatherman…..
From High Green Bridge No 14 to Fox Bridge No 52, a distance of 19 miles, 5¼ flg and 1 lock. So early Sunday morning I’m lying in bed listening to the rain hammering on the roof of the boat, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, May Bank Holiday, Trips
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In Brewood
From Ladybird Moorings to High Green Bridge No 14, a distance of 21 miles, 6½ flg and 6 locks. After a rather pleasant evening in Market Drayton, where we only actually went to two pubs (The King’s Arms and The … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, May Bank Holiday, Trips
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A Mayday Weekend Jaunt
Start / Finish : Ladybird Moorings Overnight at : High Green Bridge No 14 Overnight at : Fox Bridge No 52 Turn Round Here : Park Lodge Winding Hole Mintball needs some fuel and a pump out so we decided … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, May Bank Holiday, Trips
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May bank holiday weekend
Well the plans are falling slowly into place. The early May Bank Holiday weekend should see Mintball heading south down the Shroppie towards Brewood. Along the way we intend to fuel up and get a pump out at Norbury Junction, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, May Bank Holiday, Trips
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Liverpool Link
Well we have had the confirmation emails and so Mintball will be doing the Liverpool Link this Summer. It’s been quite a while since we last went to the middle of Liverpool – that was for a rally at Stanley … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Liverpool, Trips
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A Surfeit of Bridges
From Norbury Bridge No 38 to Ladybird Moorings, a distance of 11 miles, 2 flg and 5 locks. Mintball has done this trip so many times now that she could probably navigate it without us actually doing anything. In some … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Autumn 2014, Trips
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It’s downhill all the way
From Wolverhampton Top Lock Moorings to Norbury Bridge No 38, a distance of 17 miles, 6¾ flg and 23 locks. It was all a bit dull and gloomy when we got up the next morning to head off down the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Autumn 2014, Trips
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In search of Michael Pennington (Deceased)
From Scarfield Hill Bridge No 60 to Wolverhampton Top Lock Moorings, a distance of 28 miles, 7¾ flg and 15 locks. I think it was a train on the line that runs right by the canal that woke us up … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Autumn 2014, Trips
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