Grand Union Canal, June 2014
with Barbara and Tony Cox

Also in 2014: Events, Garden, Visits, Walks, Paul, Stephen, Michael, Peter's 80th Birthday, Holidays:Winter Skiing, Boating, Northumberland, Bayreuth


The Grand Union Canal
The Leicester Line

Water Snail at Welton Marina


Moored for the night near the New Inn at Norton Junction


Entering the first Watford Lock

on the Watford flight

The Lock Keeper




Entering the Crick tunnel

Crick Tunnel (nearly a mile) with the other end just visible

Leaving Crick Tunnel


Al Fresco eating at the "Moorings" at Crick

Barbara and Tony

The rains came!


The bank lined with yellow flags

Entering the tunnel at Husband's Bosworth




Looking back to the entrance

Looking North to the exit

Welford Church


North again

The mooring above Foxton Locks





The top of the Foxton Flight



The dismantled Inclined Plane


Distance table

The Plane and the Leicestershire countryside

The tracks, showing the stagger between one set and the next

Museum Model 1

Museum Model 2

The Museum

A Ram Pump



Starting south

Husband's Bosworth tunnel again

Yellow flags



Watering at Yelvertoft

Barbara



Sunny days after the rain

Downtown Hill


Sunset at Crick

The Village

Thatching



St Margaret of Antioch, Crick








The distorted window


A boat emerging from Crick Tunnel


The end of Crick Tunnel

Who is telling whom?

The Watford flight




Grey Wagtail ...
Photo: Tony Cox

... nesting within a lock gate
Photo: Tony Cox


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