Monthly Archives: August 2018

Fradley Junction to Shardlow

Friday, and we up fairly early as we expected our Electrical Engineer to arrive around 0900hrs and apart from clearing breakfast things away, we had to empty the two large cupboards at the stern. As it turned out it was … Continue reading

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Stoke-On-Trent – Fradley Junction

We left first thing in the morning, as we are re-tracing our steps, looking for places that we can go, as the canals are all closing, due to shortage of water. We stopped at Stone again, Geoff treated me to … Continue reading

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Caldon Canal

Marian and Russell arrived at 10.00am and we quickly went to Tesco for some fuel for the Generator and some food for us, we then had a coffee before Marian left, with a big bag of our washing, very grateful … Continue reading

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Stone to Stoke on Trent

Sunday morning we dropped Pat off at Stone railway station and headed back to the boat through the high street, again another town centre packed with charity shops. Apart from venturing out to Morrison’s, we stayed in and around the … Continue reading

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Audlem – Stone

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Baddley Locks to Audlem

Before setting off at a leisurely pace this morning we brought in all the fenders including the thick ropes around the bows and stern as the last locks before we arrive back on the Shropshire canal are narrow, especially No … Continue reading

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