Weed at the Museum
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Weed at the Museum
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: Unknown
Scanned from a print, so apologies for quality, but it's good enough to show the plague of duckweed that had filled the museum basins that summer. It was in all the locks and stretched several miles along the canal back towards Chester. And I promise you this is a true story....As we arrived, they had just pulled a woman out of one of the locks. She was standing there dripping and covered in weed. She thought the lock was filled in and grassed over, and had tried to walk across it. Dohhh....
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Image Location
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53.287702
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-2.892488