
And so to Frankton Junction. We got there at about 1230 - our "newest" bit of waterway for a while.

There are some fine buildings here too.

On our way back the next day I discovered that the garden of the house pictured above cunningly disguises an old dry dock. It was in this dry dock, according to a plaque on a wing wall of the third lock down, that Cressy was converted to leisure use. Cressy was later to be owned by Tom Rolt, who did a bit of refitting at Tooley's boatyard in Banbury.

LTC Rolt famously wrote Narrow Boat, the book credited with kick-starting the use of canals for pleasure. Rolt was a founder member of the Inland Waterways Association, set up to fight for the preservation of canals.


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