Canals 1978 - Warwick Ring
For my second canal trip we had 17 folks, so we had another camper "Sandpiper" and "Greylag" a cabin boat. Both were from Willow Wren at Rugby.
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Descending Stockton Locks at breakfast time
24 September 1978 |
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Breasted up in Bascote locks
24 September 1978 |
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Between Leamington & Warwick
24 September 1978 |
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Warwick Aqueduct over the GWR mainline
24 September 1978 |
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Greylag and Sandpiper at the bottom of the Hatton Flight
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Hatton Locks
24 September 1978 |
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Prop clearing in Walsall
27 September 1978 |
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Prop clearing in Walsall
27 September 1978 |
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Prop clearing in Walsall
27 September 1978 |
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Passing Rushall Jn (M6 J7 on the top)
27 September 1978 |
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Blakey steering through Nuneaton in the rain!
29 September 1978 |
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Yours Truly tries Hawkesbury Jn
29 September 1978 |
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just!
29 September 1978 |
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Hawksbury Stop Lock
29 September 1978 |
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Pete Cherry steers out of Hawksbury
29 September 1978 |
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Near Brinklow
29 September 1978 |
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Near Brinklow
29 September 1978 |
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The forward lookouts shout a warning
29 September 1978 |
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while 85033 passes on a van train
29 September 1978 |
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and Club Imperial gets a bump!
29 September 1978 |
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A 304 unit on an up Trent Valley local near Brinklow
29 September 1978 |
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
