Sunday, August 2, 2020

Day 35 Mancetter Bridge to Hartshill

Tuesday 28 July and the weather has settled down, bright and breezy if a little chilly for this time of year.

Setting off from our mooring near Mancetter Bridge

Oak Tree Farm hosts Towpath Alpacas with a breeding herd of 30 animals

Apparently alpacas sometimes go by boat


New marina being excavated at Mancetter


Some speculative local history


Chariot found in canal?


They couldn't be slower than us


Hartshill Yard dates from 1789 when it was the Coventry Canal Company maintenance yard.  It contains a 19th century carpenters' workshop and blacksmith's forge...


...and a main building with clocktower and crane alongside jetty


Our previous boat Blue Adeline, moored near Hartshill and bound for Banbury

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