An occasional publication of canal pictures & information
This site started life as an introduction to the formation of the Dudley Canal Trust and as a photographic record of a day-long trip by their tug "Bittell". This information is still available via the buttons:-
Further pics intended shortly!
The Tuesday Night Club has the avowed aim to "cruise all the navigable inland waterways of Britain... and more!" There is a comprehensive listing of previous years' tours - with pictures - and canal-related information on the site.
'Week zero' of this year's Tour started with the narrowboat 'Earnest' accompanied by 'Frogmoore II' on the River Trent. They explored the River Idle which usually sees just a single group of boats enter it each year. The boats then travelled down the Trent to Keadby and the official start of the Tour. They then travelled via Trent Falls onto the Humber - where the Red Arrows displayed overhead at Brough with a magnificent sense of timing - and then onto the River Hull and Beverley Beck.
Next was the Driffield Canal, with the kind assistance of members of the Bethell's Bridge Boat Club & Driffield Navigation Amenities Association at Struncheon Hill Lock, then Frodingham Beck and a look towards Corps Landing. We then crossed the Humber to South Ferriby and explored the River Ancholme. Over again to the north side and the Market Weighton Canal, then a run further upstream into Goole Docks and an excursion onto the Aire & Calder. We returned to the Ouse and headed west to reach Barmby and followed the River Derwent to Stamford Bridge.
The Tour then continued on to Ripon & York and proposes to cross the Pennines via the Rochdale Canal.
There will no doubt be a fuller set of journey reports on the TNC site, but I am in the privileged position of posting a selection of my own photos from the first two weeks of this year's tour.