Top of the flight......
and the cows are cheering us on!!!
Next is Adderley flight of 5
and at last we have moving boats
This is Market Drayton where I boarded for my narrowboat hotel holiday in pre Trev days.
Top lock of 5 at Tyrley Wharf
lovely!!!
Woodseaves Cutting
the place where its better not to meet another boat!
Embankment repairs and towpath resurfacing have been done since last year.
Overnight at Goldstone Wharf and we enjoyed a good meal here, the food far exceeding our expectations.
We do like unusually named boats.
Its now Bank Holiday Monday and the towpath talk tells us there has been a festival at Norbury.
Our first sighting of The Wrekin and Trev mused as to whether he would ever climb it again .
This factory was opened by Cadbury in 1911
as a centre for processing milk collected from the dairy farms of Shropshire. Cadbury also owned its own fleet of boats and was the first to experiment with motorised craft. Now owned by Knighton Foods producing Birds Custard.
Two hours cruising on a Bank Holiday is enough so its time to moor up at Shebdon Embankment and as the sun is playing our we test our new sitting out chairs bought in Chester.
But only after a stroll down to The Anchor, a unspoilt boatmans pub where beer may be bought by the jug and the privy is out the back.
Tuesday brought high wind and torrential rain so we stayed put but come Wednesday we braved the elements with a smile.
No "Shroppie " blog would be complete without the iconic double arched bridge
and telegraph pole.
C&RT men at work
Mr Heron
Norbury Junction Services and more towpath talk
even the Mr & Mrs Mallard get a bit bored!!!
Moored at Gnosall where Trev lived for 12 years in the dim and distant past so a stroll around the village was called for and my how it had changed.
I was excited by the boat selling hand made chocolates and disappointed to find it closed - must have sold out at Norbury Festival.
Trev is getting less and less amused by the continuing rainy weather.
Mr cow giving us the once over.
One of the few turnover bridges - these were used by the horses to change towpath sides without being unhitched.
Tuesday brought high wind and torrential rain so we stayed put but come Wednesday we braved the elements with a smile.
No "Shroppie " blog would be complete without the iconic double arched bridge
and telegraph pole.
C&RT men at work
Mr Heron
Norbury Junction Services and more towpath talk
even the Mr & Mrs Mallard get a bit bored!!!
Moored at Gnosall where Trev lived for 12 years in the dim and distant past so a stroll around the village was called for and my how it had changed.
I was excited by the boat selling hand made chocolates and disappointed to find it closed - must have sold out at Norbury Festival.
Trev is getting less and less amused by the continuing rainy weather.
Mr cow giving us the once over.
One of the few turnover bridges - these were used by the horses to change towpath sides without being unhitched.
Only 10 miles to go.
Stopping off in Wheaton Aston for diesel at 57.9 a litre soon brings a smile back to Mr T
Moored overnight at Brewood - pronounced Brood
Bridge and crane signals Wolverhampton Boat Club
The shopping trolley that got away!
Elite Narrowboats moor 4 across our path....
oh good we found the stop lock!!!
Our journey down the Shropshire Union complete.
Goodbye "Shroppie" its been fun. This is our third trip down and it never disappoints.
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