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38 - Market Drayton to Brewood, Shropshire Union Canal.

Wednesday 7th August 2003.

 Julian E had booked a taxi the past evening to take him to Shrewsbury railway station. He went up to meet the taxi at around 08:30. Just after 09:00 he mobiled us to say he got to Shrewsbury OK, so Neil and Martin started off.
10:30 saw us at the top of the Tyrley Flight, nice to report that the pretty lock cottage at that time was NOT scaffold clad and in a state of being modernised, which is normally the case when we have seen it in the past.
There was a stop in Wheaton Aston between 16:20 and 17:30 for the customary VERY cheap diesel at Turner's Garage, as well as some Morris's oil and propshaft grease, which they now stock. Also a water stop, which included a plumbed in shower for both crew members!
At 19:50 we stopped for the night at Brewood, at our "normal" spot, not far beyond Countywide Cruisers. This spot is quieter than between the bridges, but has the pain of a shelf about a foot below the surface. We used the inner tube fitted tyre fenders to space the boat away from the shelf. That evening we did a spot of shopping in the local Spar and got a Chinese takeaway from Wong's.

The cutting before Tyrley Bottom Lock. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Bottom Lock. Shropshire Union Canal.

Looking back from Tyrley Bottom Lock. Shropshire Union Canal.

Looking up from Tyrley Bottom Lock. Shropshire Union Canal.

Shropshire Union Paddle gear on the Tyrley Flight. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight, Lock No 3. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight Lock No 4. Shropshire Union Canal.

Looking back at Tyrley Flight Lock No 4. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight Lock No 2, looking up at Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight Lock No 2, looking down at Lock No 3. Shropshire Union Canal.

NB Earnest heading into Tyrley Flight Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

Tyrley Flight Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

The sanitary station above Tyrley Flight Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

Leaving Tyrley Flight Top Lock No 1. Shropshire Union Canal.

Towpath works above the Tyrley Flight. Shropshire Union Canal.

High Bridge No 57, Woodseaves Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

Woodseaves Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

The old Cadbury Dairy loading wharves. Knighton. Shropshire Union Canal.

We catch the Chapman's on NB Quidditch as they pass the Knighton Dairy. Shropshire Union Canal.

Double Culvert Bridge No 40, Grub Street Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

High Bridge No 39, Grub Street Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

High Bridge No 39, Grub Street Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

It pours with rain as we pass through Norbury Junction. Shropshire Union Canal.

Norbury Junction, the branch to Newport used to come off here. The top lock is now a dry dock. Shropshire Union Canal.

BW yard, Norbury Junction. Shropshire Union Canal.

Gnosall Bridge No 35 and The Navigation pub. Shropshire Union Canal.

Old wharf building before Gnosall Bridge No 35. Shropshire Union Canal.

The Boat pub at Bridge No 34 in Gnosall. Shropshire Union Canal.

New housing beyond Boat Inn Bridge No 34 in Gnosall. Shropshire Union Canal.

Cowley Tunnel. Shropshire Union Canal.

Cowley Tunnel. Shropshire Union Canal.

Cowley Cutting. Shropshire Union Canal.

Castle Cutting Bridge No 30. Shropshire Union Canal.

 Shropshire Union Canal.

Tavern Bridge No 19 and Turner's Garage fuel mooring. Wheaton Aston. Shropshire Union Canal.

Wheaton Aston Sanitary Station, Wheaton Aston Lock in the distance. Shropshire Union Canal.

Wheaton Aston Lock. Shropshire Union Canal.

Looking back at Wheaton Aston winding point, sanitary station and Tavern Bridge No 19. Shropshire Union Canal.

 over Telford's A5 - upgraded Watling Street. Shropshire Union Canal.

Stretton Aqueduct. Shropshire Union Canal.

Countrywide Cruisers at Brewood. Shropshire Union Canal.

The Moghal Indian Restaurant in Brewood.

Coopers, a nice greengrocer / general store in Brewood.

The Brewood Spar.

The Three Stirrups pub and Wong's Chinese takeaway in Brewood.

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