CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Tuesday, 26 February 2019

A canal with everything

Bridges? Check. Litter? Check. Graffiti? Check. Derelict industrial buildings? Check. Check. Check.

Aqueduct? But of course.
Officially (apparently) the Worksop Road aqueduct, this takes the canal over Darnall Road (or what at the time, in 1819, was the Attercliffe to Worksop Turnpike (p. 40).

And from which can be seen a building that gave Margi the serious creeps:
At some point I will try to explain my fascination with industrial decay, but not right now as I have recently drunk a pint of beer and half a bottle of rose with the First Mate of the Princess Lucy (because, as you might have guessed by now, I am not actually writing this at six a.m.)

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