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Canals 1985 - Leicester Ring


I managed to persuade Helen to come with the lads on a Spring tour of the Leicester Ring, where we went anti-clockwise hiring "Guillemot" from Willow Wren, Rugby.

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Hilmorton Locks

March 30, 1985



Foxton Top Lock

March 31, 1985



Foxton Locks

March 31, 1985



Foxton Locks

March 31, 1985



Foxton Locks

March 31, 1985



The site of Foxton Inclined Plain

March 31, 1985



The site of Foxton Inclined Plain

March 31, 1985



Loughborough Basin

April 2, 1985



Loughborough Basin

April 2, 1985



Loughborough Basin

April 2, 1985



On the River Trent above Trent Lock

April 2, 1985



Hawkesbury Junction

April 5, 1985

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth