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Narrowboat at Ellesmere Port, 1983
The main change between this view and the location today is that the yard on the left where the tanker lorries can be seen has been replaced by new housing.
Image: © John Brightley
Taken: 2 Apr 1983
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A Green Canal
This boat looks like it's cruising across a lawn as it ploughs its way through a plague of duckweed on the canal near the waterways museum.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: Unknown
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Shropshire Union Canal
Narrowboat moored on the Shropshire Union Canal near the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 May 2012
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Weed at the Museum
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....
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: Unknown
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Shropshire Union Canal, National Waterways Museum
A narrowboat moored at the National Waterways, Ellesmere Port.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 May 2012
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Shropshire Union Canal, Ellesmere Port
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 25 May 2012
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Ellesmere Port Boat Museum
Apparently, the large bird in the foreground is a semi-mature Mute Swan cygnet (in its last throws of childhood). It was very large and intimidating, knocking on the car window. When I got out of the car, it tried to pinch my car keys!
Thanks to Cyril Newsome for the identification.
Image: © Peter Craine
Taken: 11 Dec 2006
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Let's have a gander...
Image: © Peter Craine
Taken: 11 Dec 2006
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The green, green grass - National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
Oblique lighting makes the grass vivid and the buildings of the hydraulic power complex and Island Warehouse somewhat dull. I'm looking across the parallel sets of locks bringing the Shropshire Union Canal down to the Manchester Ship Canal.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 24 Jun 2012
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National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port
Image: © Brian Deegan
Taken: 10 Sep 2022
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