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Canals

by Paul Brunt

Images from my trips either by foot or by boat around the UK's Canal System

868 photos · 46 views
Stop planks in place holding the water away from the lock top gates
Lock control panel
View of the empty lock and top gates
One of the new bottom gates in place
One of the new bottom gates
Big pumps required to empty the lock
New bottom gates installed
Looking along the empty lock chamber
Crane used to lift new lock gates in position
New Lock cill beams waiting to be made
Old lock cill beams removed for replacement
Says it all really
Canal & River Trust work boats
River Don
River Don
Weir on the River Don
Sprotborough Lock approach
Moored boat
The Boat Inn
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Scanned from 35mm image, Sunset at Atherstone
Butty Fazely bow hauled towards one of the locks at Atherstone
Lapworth lock flight
89. BCLM, steam narrowboat President on her home mooring
90. BCLM, steam narrowboat President on her home mooring with butty Kildare
92. BCLM, street scene
93. Dudley Canal Tunnel Trip, roofless cavern
96. Mining scene inside Dudley Canal Tunnel
98. Mining scene inside Dudley Canal Tunnel
102. Fossil in the Rock in Dudley Canal Tunnel
103. Turning the boat round in the entrance to BCLM
106. BCN old main line, fully loaded barge passes with dredged material
108. Water excavator with a full bucket
109. BCN Old Main Line, there is a route trough the weeds
111. Old meets new bridge on the BCN Old Main Line.
113. Entering Birmingham Centre. S
116. Canada Geese and their young in Birimingham Centre
117. Negotiating Old Turn Junction, Birimingham
118. Home for two nights Birmingham
123. One of Minworth Locks
132. Moored outside the Dog & Doublet
134. The morning after at the Dog & Doublet, from brilliant sun to terential rain
136. The River Anker in full flood
1 May 2011 Hillmorton Locks
2 May 2011 - Braunston Marina 1 Mobile
2 May 2011 - Braunston Marina 2
2 May 2011 - FMC Vulcan at Braunston Marina
2 May 2011 between Braunston Tunnel and Welton Wharf
2 May 2011 Between Bridges 7 and 8 on the Grand Union in the early evening
2 May 2011 Braunston Tunnel 1
2 May 2011 Braunston Turn
2 May 2011 Norton Junction G U Leicester Section
3 May 2011 Moored at Bridge 19 on the Grand Union
3 May 2011 Pylons stretch away from the canal
4 May 2011 - The Boat Inn at Stoke Bruerne
4 May 2011 Canal Art
4 May 2011 Stoke Bruerne
4 May 2011 Swan gets close outside the Navigation at Stoke Bruerne Mobile 1
5 May 2011 Side Pound at Buckby Locks
7 May 2011 Swan feeding time at Hillmorton 4
29 April 2011
3. 25 June Braunston Boat Show
4. 25 June Braunston Boat Show
5. 2 Aug 2011 Braunston Boat Show
8. 2 Aug Braunston Boat Show
15. 2 Aug Braunston Boat Show
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Disused canal wharf near Solihull
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49. Silouette of Tixall Gate house viewed from the canal
50. Tixall Wide on the Staffs & Worcs. Canal
52. Aqueduct over the River Sow on the Staffs & Worcs.
57. A Heron uses the Autherley Junction signpost to rest
58. Awaiting the lock on the Wolverhampton Flight (BCN)
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