I love the fact that the Butter Burr flower (I think it is) just comes straight out of the ground and the leaves follow. We set off at the normal time and plodded on wards up a very quiet Aire and Calder Canal.
Butter Burr flowers coming out all over the bank at out mooring.
The shiny side after washing the port side the other day.
Ferrybridge Power Station with the lock in the foreground.
We were soon at Knottingley where the Selby Canal branches off and drops down into the Aire again. Harker's carriers were based here and their yard still has a very varied collection of boats there.
I suppose it would have a boatman's cabin and an old bolinder engine if it was floating.
Harker's collections of boats.
Kellingley Colliery comes along next and still seems to be in production as there are fresh piles of coal around.
I'm sure that the 'Tom Pudding' compartment boats were loaded here for Goole and the large mooring bollards and the capstan would be to move them up and down under the tip.
There has been news about a new style electricity pylon. I haven't seen them but they say they are 'T' shaped'. It made me look at the pylons running from Eggborough and Drax power stations along the canal.
This one is where the line of the cables changes directions. I think that they also carry communication lines as an extra. Maybe that is the single line on the top.
Just a normal 'in line' pylon. If the new ones are just 'T' shaped how do they carry so many cables as this?
Oh that is how they do it.
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