Milnsbridge to Huddersfield Friday 24th June 2016 WOW – awoke to the news like the rest of the world that the UK is leaving the EU. 51.9% voted with their hearts and the other 48.1% voted with their hands on their wallets. One of the most contentious issues relates to the open door policy to … More Brexit!! – History in the making

Slaithwaite – Milnsbridge Thursday 23rd June 2016 Today was meant to be a standard day with 12 locks to do as we headed down the Colne Valley towards Huddersfield. At lock 17E near Linthwaite as we were lowering the water in the lock the boat started to tip awkwardly with the right hand side of … More Our Titanic Moment

Wednesday 22nd June 2016 Awoke to another gorgeous day – the gods are looking kindly upon us – well, for the moment anyway. We had an appointment today at 1.00pm at Lock 24E with the Canal and River Trust people who were going to take us through the lock. The reason for this being the … More Lock 31E to Slaithwaite (pronounced Slough-it)

Tuesday 21st June 2016 This morning we walked back to the entrance/exit of the Standedge Tunnel to the canal museum that is there. It is amazing how much volunteer work has gone into getting the Huddersfield back into working order after being shut down since the late 1940’s. Our exit point yesterday in actual sunlight!! … More East side of Standedge Tunnel to Lock 31E

Monday 20th June 2016 The Standedge Tunnel is the longest (3 miles and 418 yards), highest (645feet above sea level) and deepest (638 feet beneath the summit of the Pennines) canal tunnel in Britain. It is considered one of the 7 wonders of the waterway world (click link) and today we get to traverse it. … More Standedge Tunnel

Saturday 19th June – Dobcross to Diggle  Did a quick tour of the village opposite Dobcross called UpperMills this morning and had a “nooice cuppa tea” served by some bloke who looked a bit like Roy out of Coronation Street. UpperMills is a good enough town with a busy high street. To access the town … More The lock gods are with us today!

Saturday 18th June 2016 – Woodend to Dobcross We woke up this morning to a dry day and a forecast of no rain. With the drying out conditions we thought we would take advantage and get the bikes out. We headed down the path that follows an old railway line. It was the first serious … More Let’s start climbing

Friday 17th June 2016 We need to do an addendum to yesterdays block. After we had moored up and were having dinner we noticed a couple of girls down on the towpath in front of the boat who had a shopping trolley. They looked like they were in their mid teens. We didn’t pay a … More Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester) – Woodend

Thursday 16th June 2016 Not much to write about on the blog today as we didn’t travel anywhere. We were going to head off after lunch and go onto the Huddersfield Canal but our plans changed. We wandered into the city of Ashton today which is an outer suburb of Manchester to have a look … More Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester)

Wednesday 15th June 2016 We hit the sack last night at 10.00pm and didn’t raise our heads until 9.00am. Two very tired little ducks. Where we had moored at the bottom lock was just around the corner of the very well known Marple Aqueduct. It is very hard to do these structures justice unless you … More Bottom Marple Locks to Dunkinfield (Outer Manchester)