It's now Tuesday and we have finally moved out of the EE Shroppie black spot - we are at Ellesmere which is a lovely unspoilt country town.There is a lot of housing development going on around it which will hopefully not destroy its character. We spent last night near the Prees Branch which is on a high embankment which overlooks The Mosses National nature reserve - its an area of low land peat bog and has an atmosphere all of its own.
As the signal is so good it has given me a chance to catch up on pictures -enjoy.
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| Wrenbury mill on the left and the Dusty Miller on the right. |
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| Wrenbury church which rings the quarters but thankfully not during the night. |
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| One of the tricky entrances to the lock. |
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| Our mooring on the Whitchurch Arm which is owned by a Trust,a very pleasant off line mooring which will hopefully not be ruined by the new houses. |
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| Whitchurch church which is grade 1 listed. |
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| Entering the first of the 3 Grindley Brook staircase locks |
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| One of the Llangollen lift bridges which are manually operated and Anne says it can take upto 80 turns to open some of them |
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| The lovely canal company house which overlooks the junction with the Prees Branch- left goes towards Wrenbury and beyond,right is the Prees Branch and behind me goes to Llangollen. |
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| A view of Blake Mere as we come into Ellesmere. |
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| I am standing on the bridge to the Ellesmere arm - left is Wrenbury and right is Llangollen. |
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| At the end of the arm they have built a new Tesco (left) which is in a warehouse style which compliments the old canal one on the right.Well done Tesco. |
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| The old Ellesmere Canal Co worshops now used by CRT |
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| Had to include this -so true |
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| Now this is an interesting chimney |
