To day 21 Saturday (its doing it again) 142 miles, 107 locks, 18 swing/lift bridges and 5 cappuccino's latest in Devizes (which has several)
The above picture is of our mooring tonight at the Wharf- we are third on the right- and its stopped again- why me!!!
This canal continues to provide suprises like a lock with a swing bridge over the top.The original landowner refused permission to move a footpath a few yards so the builders had to let it cross the lock. Yesterdays journey around Picked Hill and the first of the White Horses carved into the chalk hill were breath taking.
Brewery building in Devizes.
The Market Hall
The K&A restored barge Unity built by Robbins, Lane and Pinniger at Honey Street Wharf.
A chocolate box cottage at All Cannings which has a community store from which I collected todays Daily Telegraph after ordering it yesterday- a great little shop and very friendly.
Our first White Horse after passing Picked Hill in the Vale of Pewsey.
The Trent & Mersey canal has "wides" caused by salt mining subsidence. The K&A has wides made specially for the landed gentry- Lady Susannah Wroughton who did not want a canal through her land. She would rather like to see a lake- so she got the wide instead and a rather nice stone bridge as well.
On the way out of Hungerford you pass the house that belonged to Eric Moorecombe-its his son's now. In the grounds is a large statue of them both, from a film studio- not sure of the colour though.
The lock with a swing bridge through the middle.
