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Takin’ Our Time
Moored at Dukinfield Junction, just onto the Peak Forest Canal last week I was talking to two fellow boaters.
They were asking about the journey through Manchester and wondering if it really was safe, and how long it took.
I think I worried them a little when I explained it had taken three of us some four hours to climb the Rochdale nine locks - and that was when we were fresh in the morning.
They would be facing the Rochdale nine locks later in the afternoon, after tiring themselves out on the Ashton Canal.
There were just two of them because one of the family had appendicitis and another was keeping them company back at home.
They set off very early the following morning, before we were up to wish them good luck.
This morning we passed the boat safely on their home mooring near Barbridge Junction so I assume they arrived safely.
So, K or M Jones from Takin’ Our Time, leaves us a comment to say how you got on through Manchester.
Posted on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 18:39 Comments (0) Category(s): Middlewich Branch , Peak Forest
Cheshire Ring
We’ve been busy making the most of the fine sunny weather recently with the filming for the Four Counties and Cheshire Ring DVDs.
We headed up the Trent and Mersey to Preston Brook where it turns into the Bridgewater Canal. The junction where the canals meet end on is inside Preston Brook Tunnel. Is this the only instance of canals meeting within a tunnel?
Then we did the whole of the Bridgewater Canal, including the branches to Runcorn and to Leigh and spent Thursday night moored at Castlefield Basin in Manchester.
Our son, Andrew, turned up on his way to work on Friday morning. This was his first week in his new job and he seemed to be enjoying it.
Friday saw us climb the Rochdale 9 - the broad locks through the centre of Manchester - and they were hard work. Three and a half very tiring hours to do these locks, before turning right onto the Ashton Canal for another 18 locks to Dukinfield Junction.
Then, today, we climbed the Marple flight on the Peak Forest Canal which is, I think, the second steepest flight of locks in Britain (after Caen Hill). A rise of 214 feet in 16 locks in just under a mile.
Tonight we are moored at Strines on the Peak Forest Canal.
Tomorrow we will be heading for Marple via Whaley Bridge and Bugsworth.