Lapworth flight - Kingswood Junction (1 miles, 15 locks)

Been a bit busy this week with locks, but it has been enjoyable and we have had some excellent exercise!

Lapworth flight - view of 5 locks down to the bridge.

It only took us 2 hours to get from lock 6 to lock 14, so we thought that wasn't too bad considering we had to do everyone twice!  I took the motor down, setting the lock up for the next one and Richard dealt with the butty, dealing with refilling the lock and bowhauling across each pound.

View from the lock joining from the Grand Union junction (Kingswood) - we didn't get wet, sheltering under the BW office canopy just in time!

Same view up the flight, just standing on the bridge, shown in the previous picture.

Barrel-roofed cottages stem from the use of the same wooden frames used to build the brick road bridges which span the canal.  These quaint cottages are common along this length of canal.

We moored along the link between the 2 canals, turning around on the Grand Union the next morning so we would be facing the right way to go down the Stratford Canal.

Where there has to be a bridge over a lock, helpful slits in the bridge have on the whole been retained, which means dragging the butty in or out of the lock doesn't need to include gymnastics!

A fitting tribute!

Our work on the 'pringle jumper' rudder continued with avengence....