I like the first pic best with the Liver bird crest on the bridge :PDT11
Lovely pics. Thanks GD.
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I like the first pic best with the Liver bird crest on the bridge :PDT11
Lovely pics. Thanks GD.
Kev,I upload all my pics from camera to the free Google "Picasa" site which has tools for sharpening,saturation and contrast plus many,many more.Quote:
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P.S.there are now 122 pics on my flickr set of the canal link and counting
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The first 2 of 6 to use the locks yesterday
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Emerging out of the tunnel that connects the locks to Stanley Dock
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New neighbours for the swans in the salthouse Dock.
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Tickety Boo in the foreground with the Duck just ready to leave the Salthouse
Thank you gd for your brilliant pics and dedication on bringing some very brilliant photos to us on Yo.
Official opening for Liverpool Pier Head canal link
Mar 25 2009
by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Echo
THE ?22m project to link up city centre Liverpool to the UK?s 2,200 mile canal system was being officially opened today.
The new one-and-a-half mile long canal is expected to generate 200,000 extra visitors a year to the city?s docks, worth an estimated ?1.9m to the local economy.
Thousands of boats can travel to the heart of Liverpool along the 127-mile Leeds & Liverpool canal, passing city gems such as the Liver, Cunard and Port of Liverpool buildings.
Chief executive of British Waterways Robin Evans said the new stretch of canal was a boost to the renaissance of the nation?s inland waterways.
Mr Evans added: ?It?s remarkable the way that the waterways have been reinvented for the 21st century and that we?re still building canals today.?
Source: Liverpool Echo
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The Liverbird just coming up to Tobacco Wharf ,the old British American tobacco factory.
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Heading towards Boundary Bridge homeward bound
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The Skylark in the Stanley locks homeward bound
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Pride of Sefton in No 2 lock homeward bound
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Locks finished with, the Pride of Sefton heads for the canal turn
History in the making well done
Colin
Fabulous views Joe. What a unique way to view areas of our city! I need a boat!
"Great Pictures! as usual Joe, Thanks.:PDT11
Well said,Kev! I think quite a few folks viewing these pics are saying the same
thing. I think Joe must have already got one, judging by all the brilliant
photos we're getting. It's a wonderful show, it has to be said.
Stan H.
You can get one from the Liverpool Boat Co Ltd - the largest canal boat builder in the UK. :)Quote:
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It would be cool if the pier head and canal and misty one time and the grim reaper came to the pool by boat to come for some souls.
Love the canal, but i would be put off by the sights you have to see before getting to the Pier Head and Albert Dock.
Cheers Howie, I've just put a deposit down on a 58' Fully Fitted 2007 Crick Show Boat for delivery tomorrow, hope Mrs Kev doesn't mind :PDT11Quote:
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Only six boats a day in each direction will be allowed through the assisted sections. The main limiting factor will be the number of berths available on the mooring pontoons. If more boats were allowed through each day there would not be enough moorings available.
Boats will be able to moor at Salthouse Dock for up to 14 days. Water and electricity will be available on the pontoons. There will be no mooring charge.
They are gonna have to make more available. Simplez :PDT10
No I`m afraid not, I have to rely on a train to Sandhills station,up the lane to Sandhills Bridge then walk the canal to the locks,then across to the mobile cafe outside the old tobacco warehouse for a cup of tea and a mars bar. Then through the dock gates if they are open, on to the Pierhead.Quote:
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They are now Collingwood boat builders of Townsend St. Here`s a shell of a narrow boat in their yard.Quote:
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I'm sure I saw some canal boats being made down Blackburne St in GARSTON, Kev. Perhaps they'll give you a discount for being local.Quote:
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Hear! Hear! :handclap:
Chris :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
As cool as it is, does anyone else think there's a bit too much concrete ?
It reminds me of the water system in america u see used in movie car chases. Just having a quick look online, it could be the Owens Valley Aqueduct.
That's the only disappointment I've got with the canal link, they could have at least painted it lol
Why not buy a boat Kev, convert it to a canal bus and ferry our local neighbouring towns and villages into the heart of Liverpool One for a shopping spree. Remember some Manchester United fans travel to their home games on a Resturant barge.
Plenty of Stag Doos hire these narrow boats in Oxford and other places.
Max it goes through Stanley Dock, massive history to see there.Quote:
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Not sure if this has been posted?
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/...2534-23020367/
Worth a look :PDT11
Brilliant Photos Joe, Keep it up mate :handclap:
It's a business waiting to happen. I'll haul me rowing boat down there tomorrow and taxi people a quid a mile!
Yeah and Stanley dock looks rundown from most of North Liverpool.Quote:
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That's an excellent video!
That was Fred the weather mans trip.Glad to see the professionals suffer with sun flare as well.
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This one was postcard of the day in fridays Daily Post
Some lens flare photos i can usually just clone or heal out but thats with a photo not a video.
Just give it time:unibrow:Quote:
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We can`t call this the end of the canal now,just before Burlington St
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Burlington St bridge where once the canal went under but now filled in and built on
See here for some pics of Burlington Bridge area.Quote:
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Thanks Kev,I had seen them.
To think we swam in that water in the "Scaldies"
behind Tate`s so called because of the warm water entering the canal through factory pipes. People drowned surplus kittens and pups which were born and any cats and dogs which died of natural causes. They were put in a sack with a house brick and thrown off the nearest canal bridge.
If we wanted the water a bit cleaner we would catch a tram to Ford or Litherland because we thought that was countryside
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Old Leeds & Liverpool canal bridge in Chisenhale St, built in 1802 it would have been the last bridge on the canal .The canal was filled in later on now buildings are on it.
The building on the left was once a pub anybody know it`s name?
Just found it`s name ,the Bridge Inn,known locally as the Fly House
Joe, I've posted pics of the area including an image of the bridge in 1802: HereQuote:
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Canal bridge at Netherton known as Swift`s Bridge
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Murals on the walls of the Litherland Road bridge of wild flowers
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This is where the old electric lift bridge spanned the canal at Litherland
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This is the old bridge keeper`s house at Litherland
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The cross over bridge at Bootle used to change towpaths
wow thanks joe ! :handclap:
God, u don't half get around ;)
Excellent pics, GD.