It was the Buckingham Canal Society`s annual festival to raise funds for restoration of the abandoned canal.
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Failed to find anything online about the jenny Wren. The following day it had a sign on the roof "Gentleman's electric launch for sale" |
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As well as ice cream etc. and stainless steel chimneys and some other bits and bobs the actual name or any hint of a website was very much absent. |
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Another regular at the canal festivals Chamberlain Carrying Co. |
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The Cheese boat busy with some very different cheeses on sale. Other cheese boats are available. |
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The Cosgrove boat co. was doing a decent trade. |
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One stall had some serious footwear but I think the towpath was not a good selling site. |
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Canal society volunteers were operating the lock in return for a donation to the fund. |
Above Raymond and Nutfield are a typical example of what the canals were built for. A working pair. Raymond (un-powered) would be towed by Nutfield. Accommodation was the cabins you can see with Raymond`s being about 8 feet long and Nutfield the same but with an extension for the engine. Some of these boats were worked by families with 4/5 children on board. Where did they sleep? Another good site with some good pictures can be found HERE.
In the car park a 1965 Chrysler, a New Yorker I think, in not to bad a condition for it`s age.
One here for $8900 (£5493)
It`s an original left hook so I wonder how it came to be in the UK.
Jaq likes to see little bits of the U.S. as we travel.
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Cosgrove Park holiday home site is alongside the canal based around some worked out sand and gravel pits the products of which helped in the construction of the M1 motorway.
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You can pick out a few prime spots near the lakes where you at least have a view of water unlike the general pitch on the left where the view is the people next door.
No the boat is a better bet, you can moor where it`s really busy if you get lonely or be alone with just fields for company.
2 comments:
About all I can say about the holiday homes is AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Thought about you two todat when we walked into Paddington Basin.
Mx
I have a friend with a van up there somewhere, right on the lake, and in about 5 yrs it's had to be moved three times due to flooding.
Think we'll stick to the boat :)
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