Day 3: 3 miles
What
a lovely day! With an open, sunny sky we cruised the short hop to
Norbury Junction.
Getting
here early enough for a reasonable mooring beyond the Wharf.
This
section of the Shropshire Union Canal passes through another deep
cutting, known as Grub Street Cutting. Here a bridge has the curious
additional arch with the most photographed telegraph pole on the
cut?!
Although
we have cruised here a number of times before (the last being 2011),
we have never done it from a northerly direction.
As
a piece of history, when moored here in 2005, on a Four Counties
circuit from Macclesfield, we spotted the nb Coronation.
Song of the Waterways at Norbury in the original red/green colour
scheme
nb Coronation
We
bought our boat through Andy Burnett in 2003. Geoff Dennison, the
previous owner had died in the Autumn. Geoff was a well-known folk
singer (with Benny) in the Braunston/Ansty area and had previously
owned the Coronation – which was reputedly in a poor state. The
photo shows it in 2005?
As
we arrived early at Norbury on a Friday, there was still plenty of
space. It soon filled up though for a sunny and busy weekend.
I
got more of the jobs done on the list (and found yet more needing
doing!).
One
job was to replace the temporary lorry sheet over the badly leaking
front cratch board.
This
was done with a piece of black cratch sheeting – I found it hard to
get all the creases out. It is still a temporary repair until next
spring when I can get to grips with a new cratch board!
1st Temporary Cover
2nd Temporary Cover
Whilst on the bow, I noticed these? Now where is that Donald!
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