SCHOLAR GYPSY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM – MAJOR VOYAGES SINCE 2003

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2011

440 miles, 186 locks

Braunston to Upware (Ely) and back – photos on the new blog.

Also QDJ rehearsal on the tideway.

 

2010

249 miles, 211 locks

Braunston – Paddington – Edmonton – Limehouse – Woolwich Barrier – Limehouse – Brentford – Braunston

2009

273 miles,  209 locks

Braunston – Thrupp – Coventry – Anglesey Basin – Walsall – Kings Norton – Braunston – Wyken – Braunston

2008

335 miles, 180 locks

Braunston – Fradley – Autherley – Llangollen – Middlewich – Fradley – Braunston

2007

180 miles, 136 locks

 

Braunston – Fradley – Great Haywood – Stourton – Farmers Bridge – Fazeley – Braunston

 

2006

109 miles, 76 locks

 

Braunston - Oxford – Braunston

 

2005

56 miles, 28 locks

 

Braunston – Welford – Foxton top lock – Braunston

 

2004

339 miles, 168 locks

 

Braunston – Fradley – Great Haywood – Autherley – Barbridge – Middlewich – Worsley – Whaley Bridge – Etruria – Fradley – Braunston

2003

182 miles, 128 locks

Braunston – Warwick – Kings Norton – Norbury – Autherley – Great Haywood – Fradley – Braunston

 

 

2011

Guest of St Pancras Cruising club on cruise to Royal Docks, January 7th 2011

 


2010

Braunston – Paddington – Edmonton – Limehouse – Woolwich Barrier – Limehouse – Brentford – Braunston

249 miles, 211 locks

 

Near Braunston (February)

Approaching Braunston bottom lock

Braunston flight

Near Gayton Junction

 

Gayton Junction

 

Stoke Bruerne top lock

Back at Willowtree, Paddington Arm  – first time since 2003.

 

Old Taylor Woodrow  site – Paddington arm

 

Perivale

 

North Circular Aqueduct – Hugh & kayak out of sight

Little Venice

 

Paddington Basin

 

Maida Vale tunnel

 

 

 

 

 

Hampstead Road Lock

a.k.a.Camden Lock

Kings Cross / St Pancras

 

Old Ford Lock, Victoria Park

Hertford Union, with Olympic Village in the background

 

Olympic site: media centre and security fence

Lea Bridge, Hackney

 

Edmonton, River Lea

 

Stonebridge Lock

(Hugh in sight this time)

 

 

 

 

Olympic Stadium

Bow Back Rivers

 

Bow Locks

 

Limehouse: preparing for the tideway trip

 

Thames barrier
To see more pictures of this trip please click on the photo

See also video: part 1 and part 2 (thanks to John Halford)

Winkwell, Grand Union

Wendover Arm, new terminus

 

Yardley Gobion (I think)

Sunset

 

Aqueduct, Milton Keynes

 

Wolverton Aqueduct, over the Great Ouse

 

Blisworth Tunnel

 

Watford locks, Leicester line

 

Watford locks, Leicester line

 

Elkington, Leicester line

 

 

2009

Braunston – Thrupp – Coventry – Anglesey Basin – Walsall – Kings Norton – Braunston – Wyken – Braunston

273 miles,  209 locks

Napton Flight

Coventry Basin

Coventry Basin

 

Ricoh Stadium, home of Coventry City FC

Hawkesbury Junction

 

Atherstone Flight

Atherstone Flight

 

Grendon Wharf, Coventry canal

Spaghetti Junction, B & F

 

Perry Barr locks, Tame Valley canal

 

Spaghetti Junction, Tame Valley canal

 

Anglesey Basin, Wyrley and Essington

Brownhills Wharf, Wyrley and Essington

 

Walsall top lock

Walsall flight – the crew concentrating, as usual

 

Walsall basin

Walsall Art Gallery

 

Ocker Hill

Ryders Green flight, Walsall canal

 

 

Bascote flight, Grand Union

Lapworth  flight, Stratford canal

 

 

2008
Braunston – Fradley – Autherley – Llangollen – Middlewich – Fradley – Braunston
335 miles, 180 locks

 

Adderley Locks, Shropshire Union


Adderley Locks,
Shropshire Union

Audlem flight, Shropshire Union

Wrenbury Lift Bridge, Llangollen Canal

Somewhere on the Shroppie / Llangollen

Leaving Whixall Marina, Prees Branch

Lift Bridge,  Prees Branch

Chirk Aqueduct

 

Inaugurating the kayak, near Chirk

Chirk Aqueduct

 

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct


Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct


Pontcysyllte Aqueduct


Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

 

The narrows at Sun Trevor

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

 

Castell Dinas Bran, from near Sun Trevor

Admiring the scenery, near Llangollen

Llangollen marina

Kayaking up the feeder …

.. and finally reaching Horseshoe falls

 

Llangollen steam railway

 

Blake Mere, Ellesmere

Hurleston Locks & reservoir

 

Cheshire Locks, Trent and Mersey


Broughton Arms, Rode Heath, T&M

Waiting for boats to come out of Harecastle Tunnel

 

Stoke-on-Trent locks

 

The crew for this summer

 

 

2007

Braunston – Fradley – Great Haywood – Stourton – Farmers Bridge – Fazeley – Braunston

180 miles, 136 locks

 

Staffs and Worcs, near Penkridge

Staffs and Worcs, near Penkridge

Gailey Top Lock, S&W

Staffs and Worcs, near Dimminsgdale

 

Staffs and Worcs, near Dimminsgdale

Near Wolverhampton

 

The Bratch

 

The Bratch

 

Somewhere on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal

 

Stourton flight, Stourbridge Canal

 

Stourbridge Canal (the rather short rural section!)

 

Delph Locks, Dudley No 1 canal

The Glassworks & Stourbridge 16 locks

 

Delph Locks, Dudley No. 1 canal

Brierley Hill, Dudley No.1 Canal

 

Windmill End Junc, Netherton, Dudley No. 2 Canal

 

Under the M5 – from the BCN new main line

 

Icknield Port Loop, BCN old main line

 

Birmingham, Oozels Street Loop

Farmers Bridge flight, Birmingham and Fazeley

 

Ashton flight, Birmingham and Fazeley

 

M6, near Spaghetti Junction

(NB rather worrying scaffolding holding the road up!)

 

Curdworth Flight, B&F

Sutton Stop, Oxford canal

 

2006

Braunston - Oxford – Braunston

109 miles, 76 locks

 

Braunston Marina, Grand Union


Braunston Marina, Grand
Union

 

Braunston Locks, Grand Union

 


Napton flight,
Southern Oxford

Banbury, Southern Oxford

 

Allen’s Lock, Southern Oxford

Near Shipton Weir lock, Southern Oxford

 

Thrupp, Southern Oxford


Marston Doles,
Southern Oxford

 

Crick, Leicester branch

Watford flight, Leicester branch

 

Napton Bottom Lock, Southern Oxford

 

2005

Braunston – Welford – Foxton top lock – Braunston

56 miles, 28 locks

 

Welford, Leicester Line

 

Leicester Line summit

 

Foxton top lock, Leicester Line

 

Husbands Bosworth Tunnel, Leicester Line

Near Braunston, Grand Union

 

Braunston turn in the spring

Newly painted, near Hillmorton, Northern Oxford

 

Hillmorton locks

 

2004

Braunston – Fradley – Great Haywood – Autherley – Barbridge – Middlewich – Worsley – Whaley Bridge – Etruria – Fradley – Braunston

339 miles, 168 locks

 


Great Haywood Junction,
Trent and Mersey

 

Brewood, Shropshire Union

Bridge on the Shropshire Union

Fradley Junction. Coventry Canal

 


Dawn on Tixall wide, Staffs and Worcs

 

Tixall wide


Barton Swing Aqueduct,
Bridgewater Canal

 

Manchester in the rain, Rochdale Canal

Whaley Bridge, Peak Forest

 

Bosley flight, Macclesfield

Harecastle Tunnel, Trent and Mersey

 


Tixall wide, Staffs and Worcs

 

2003

Braunston – Warwick – Kings Norton – Norbury – Autherley – Great Haywood – Fradley – Braunston

182 miles, 128 locks

 

Near Gas Street, Birmingham, Worcs & Birmingham

 


Dawn in
Birmingham, BCN main line


Dudley Tunnel, Dudley Canal

 


Wolverhampton Locks, BCN main line

Under the M5, Smethwick, BCN old main line

 


Cliveden Reach, River
Thames

River Thames (Chertsey lock)

 

Oxford


Brentford Locks, Grand
Union

Horsenden Hill, Paddington Arm


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Last updated:  22 December 2011

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