Well another wet night but fine this morning although we did have some fine drizzle and strong breeze as we travelled to the locks, but thankfully the flight was dry. The changing of the clocks is not going too well, the clocks read the right time but my stomach doesn't agree. The water level on the Coventry below Atherstone locks was well up.
At Grendon dock there is now quite a garden in the old butty including trees in the cabin.
One of the boats near by was getting well into Halloween with decorations and items on the front deck.
A boat was just leaving the services heading for the locks as we arrived so we dumped our rubbish and dawdled up to the lock by which time they were about to leave lock 11 so we followed them up, we didn’t meet any boats coming down until lock 4 and 3, one in each . On one of the lock gates, I think it was number 9 I spotted this small brass plaque. With the mention of husband/ father, plus the dog Rose I wonder if both of them lost their lives together.
There were two volunteers down near the bottom end of the flight litter picking and they had never noticed the brass plaque so were unable to through any light on it.
There was a lady Volockie on 4, she had just helped the two Canal Time boats down and she assisted us to the top enabling me to set ahead. For some reason I couldn’t fathom the Volockies sit at the top with one top paddle raised, so although two boats had come down, the top lock was against us.
Today’s Journey
11 locks, 4½ miles in 3½ hours.
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At the top lock the VLockies have no advance warning of a boat about to go down which just appears under the bridge, but they will have plenty of warning of boats coming up through locks 3 and 2. By keeping the lock full they will be instantly ready for any descending boat and still have plenty of time to be ready for an ascending boat.
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