on 23-03-2018 19:05
Happy Friday evening guys, looking forward to the weekend?
I'd love to hear what you have planned for Saturday/Sunday. My plan includes...
One of these might not happen.
What about you?
on 04-05-2018 20:05
on 04-05-2018 20:19
It's the annual Skipton Waterways Festival this bank holiday weekend ... I'm looking forward to tomorrow as a Swing Band + Brass Band + Jive group are doing 2 or 3 sessions each at the Canal Basin ... family fun & all that ... hoping to get some good photos = this year the theme is 'Celebration Time'
On Sunday the tour de Yorkshire comes through the town - I shall watch from home as before the aerial photography of 'Up The Dales' was marvellous
The weather forecast is warm & dry
on 04-05-2018 20:53
on 04-05-2018 20:53
@Anonymous wrote:It's the annual Skipton Waterways Festival this bank holiday weekend ... I'm looking forward to tomorrow as a Swing Band + Brass Band + Jive group are doing 2 or 3 sessions each at the Canal Basin ... family fun & all that ... hoping to get some good photos = this year the theme is 'Celebration Time'
On Sunday the tour de Yorkshire comes through the town - I shall watch from home as before the aerial photography of 'Up The Dales' was marvellous
The weather forecast is warm & dry
Thw Waterways festival sounds great @Anonymous. Love that sort of thing.
Ray's family all worked on barges back in the day. Even with horses pulling the barges.
I didn't realise it was time for the Tour de Yorkshire again. That's come round very quickly
Veritas Numquam Perit
04-05-2018 21:09 - edited 04-05-2018 21:10
How interesting to hear Ray's family worked on the barges @Cleoriff
There is a lot of history of the Leeds Liverpool canal on pc at the town museum when I last looked
What would the barges have transported?
Where I come from ie West Yorkshire it was coal in what were known as 'Tom Puddings' ie little boxy wooden floating containers pulled along in a line
In Skipton, from the short branch of Springs canal, it was stone, I believe without looking it up to make sure sure
on 04-05-2018 21:22
on 04-05-2018 21:22
@AnonymousRays family (based in Coventry and Leighton Buzzard) transported coal (for power stations and Cadburys) , paper (for John Dickenson in London who made writing paper and envelopes) and sand from Leighton to Birmingham to builders yards.
They certainly knew how to work on those barges
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 04-05-2018 21:33
on 04-05-2018 22:39
on 04-05-2018 22:39
In the promised hot weather I will be sitting out, with a beer, reading the Kindle between the many interruptions from a land far away!
On Sunday I may even walk to the pub....
on 04-05-2018 22:49
on 04-05-2018 22:49
on 04-05-2018 22:59
on 04-05-2018 22:59
on 04-05-2018 23:09
on 04-05-2018 23:09