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In today's news... Jan and I gave a talk on the Boaters' Christian Fellowship this morning to a small group of people in our village. I was up until 0130 preparing the powerpoint slides! As well as talking about what the BCF does I gave a bit of canal history and talked about about our own boating. I think it went down reasonably well, even though we overran slightly.
This afternoon I changed the oil and filter in Ally's car. She came over yesterday to do some marking and other school work. I could hardly believe the odometer reading in her car: 167,888 miles. It's a 14-year-old Ford Focus, and it's done almost as many miles as our twice-as-old Volvo 240.
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That's nothing, In our 15 year old Renault, we have just reached 50,000 miles. I haven't quite caught up on the bike. HS
Nice titbits, Halfie :-) Nice pic as well!
I think it might not be a 'proper' navigable canal tunnel. But it could be a culvert through a canal embankment. Might even be called an aqueduct. No idea where though.
Of course, if I'm right, it will look like a canal tunnel because it is a tunnel built by canal contractors using their standard techniques. The bell-mouth at the near end has something of early Telford about it.
Bill.S, you are right. It is an aqueduct on the Grand Union at Weedon. The waterway underneath is a tributary of the River Nene. I don't know who built it.
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