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Canals 1982

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Passing Soho depot, Bob & Maggie Randle enjoying the March sunshine

March 26, 1982



Bromford Jn (Oldbury)

March 26, 1982



Bromford Jn (Oldbury)

March 26, 1982



Bromford Jn (Oldbury)

March 26, 1982



Maggie & Helen at Trentham Lock

March 28, 1982



Trentham Lock

March 28, 1982



Norah steers out of Trentham Lock

March 28, 1982



South of Stoke

March 28, 1982



South of Stoke

March 28, 1982



South of Stoke

March 28, 1982



Etruria Top Lock

March 28, 1982



Etruria Top Lock

March 28, 1982



Approaching Wheelock

March 29, 1982



Approaching Wheelock

March 29, 1982



Approaching Wheelock

March 29, 1982



Watering at Wheelock

March 29, 1982



Wheelock

March 29, 1982



Audlem

March 31, 1982



Audlem

March 31, 1982



Audlem

March 31, 1982



Audlem

March 31, 1982



Adderley Locks

March 31, 1982



Adderley Locks

March 31, 1982



Tyrley Cutting

March 31, 1982



"James Arnold" (ex-"Greylag) at Gnosall

March 31, 1982



"James Arnold" (ex-"Greylag) at Gnosall

March 31, 1982



Down the hatch on the BCN (again!)

April 1, 1982



Down the hatch on the BCN (again!)

April 1, 1982



In Johnson's Hillock Locks

September 22, 1982



In Johnson's Hillock Locks

September 22, 1982



Burnley Embankment

September 23, 1982



Burnley

September 23, 1982



Burnley Embankment

September 23, 1982



Barrowford Locks

September 23, 1982



Muke "Nutty Noah" Hanscombe in Barrowford Locks

September 23, 1982



Barrowford Locks

September 23, 1982



Mike Hanscombe & the late Mike "PC Plod" Thompson at Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Greenberfield Locks

September 23, 1982



Below Greenberfield

September 23, 1982



Leaving East Marton after a quick one in the "Cross Keys"

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between East Marton & Bank Newton

September 23, 1982



Between Gargrave & Skipton

September 23, 1982



Between Gargrave & Skipton

September 23, 1982



Swing Bridge

September 23, 1982



The Swing Bridge party hoof-it across the fields to the next one

September 23, 1982



? and find someone has built a by-pass in the way

September 23, 1982



Skipton By-pass

September 23, 1982



Still plodding on

September 23, 1982



Class 40 heads for Skipton with a freight

September 23, 1982



In Riddlesden we caught a car on a swing bridge!

September 24, 1982



Bingley 5-rise

September 24, 1982



Bingley 5-rise

September 24, 1982



Bingley 5-rise

September 24, 1982



Bingley 5-rise

September 24, 1982



Bingley 5-rise

September 24, 1982



Leaving the old Lemonroyd Lock (?) before the major breach occured into the opencast workings on the right

September 25, 1982



Passing a workboat in Castleford Lock

September 25, 1982



The unloading gantries at Ferrybridge B Powerstation

September 25, 1982



Loaded barges waiting the grabs at Ferrybridge A

September 25, 1982



Leaving Ferrybridge

September 25, 1982



My version of the famous groupshot at Whitley Bridge

September 25, 1982



Adrian's famous groupshot at Whitley Bridge

September 25, 1982



Coming up the Trent near Nottingham

September 27, 1982



On the Trent near Nottingham

September 27, 1982



On the Leek branch of the Caldon near Denford

September 30, 1982



The Hollybush (alongside the Caldon mainline) viewed from the Leek branch

September 30, 1982



Taking water at Diglis Basin

November 9, 1982



Riders' Green Locks

November 13, 1982



Riders' Green Locks

November 13, 1982



Riders' Green Locks

November 13, 1982



Somewhere on the BCN

November 13, 1982



Farmer's Bridge top lock

November 14, 1982

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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