This is the view when I
looked out of the cratch this morning:
Quite the opposite to the
day we had on Tuesday when it rained constantly during the daylight hours. Even Buddy seems to be aware when it’s
raining and is consequently quite happy to be curled up on his bed. We eventually ventured out and we walked down
towards Kings Norton.
Kings Norton is where this
canal ends/starts at a junction with the Birmingham & Worcester canal. According to the graffitied milepost near our
mooring we are only four miles away.
We didn’t walk that far
but I did find a milepost that I was missing from my collection of canal
mileposts – the one indicating we are only three miles from the junction.
The one with the number on
is one of the modern ones; they were added at each of the 25 miles of the Stratford
canal to mark the millennium. SONACS stands for Stratford On Avon Canal Society who were one of the parties involved in the restoration process which reopened the canal to boating in the 1960s.
The canal was originally started in 1793 from Kings Norton but wasn’t opened
right down to the River Avon at Stratford until 1816 – that was a long time to
build a canal in those days. Image how long
it would take today though.
The rail behind the new
milepost was placed there when the railway company took over the canal in the
mid 1800s. It seems they placed these
rail markers at ¼ mile intervals and most can still be found today. As for the more modern ones, I only have two
to find – the one and 17-mile markers.
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Bridge number 6 - not the
usual quaint bridge associated with canals
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Very sad to see all this
litter thrown over the bridge parapet.
It is in a most inaccessible place and as it can only be seen from the
canal I doubt it will ever get cleared up.
Buddy was most unimpressed
when I took him out for his afternoon walk but, to be fair, we didn’t walk far
and we were soon back indoors in the dry.
I had had the stove on all day as for some reason I had chosen to do the
weekly wash on a wet day. Still, at
least it was all dry and packed away by the time Karen got home from work.
Talking about Buddy, I was
chatting with my dad the other day and he was telling me that he has finally
got internet connection in the hospital and could catch up on the blogs. He said he was particularly keen on “Bloody’s
bog” and hopes he does another one soon.
Great spoonerism 😊
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