Anderton - Trent and Mersey to north of Middlewich -Shropshire Union Canal
A lovely day!
Well, today panned out to be much more pleasant than we expected. Dreary skies at the start produced a sunny and warm day. Lots of interesting boats to pass, plus industrial salt works galore, back gardens to view, lovely scenery and today, locks to do too! The first lock of the day was the 14 feet deep Big Lock at Middlewich - so big and obstinate were the lock gates that it took a very gallant gentleman, to help us open them! He told us that one of the lock beams was original ie 200 years old?? No surely not!!!
Later, we came across a rusty old hulk across the canal that had broken free from its moorings and needed Bob and another boatman to tether again.
On our way again, and we found some boaters having a 'domestic' between locks, engrossing some painters waiting to paint the lock beams.
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