Once again we took to the Shropshire Union Canal (Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal). Again from Norbury Wharf, and again on a Dayboat Hire. This time, we had Valiant, another on of the 29′ dayboats.

There are two differences about this trip: 1) We went North, and, 2) Norbury Wharf let me have the boat for free…
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Bloody ages ago I offered to redo the dayboat maps for Norbury Wharf. I bet they’ve forgotten about it – I had.
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Back when I got tired of people stealing my work mapping the Canals and Waterways of the UK (and got utterly pissed off with the changes to Google Maps that madeit unworkable), someone took a copy and put it on Github.
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On June 29th, 2019, we again hired one of the Day Boats from Norbury Wharf. Again we took the south route, but only got as far as High Onn before having to return.

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The very first of our boating jaunts, back in September 2008!
A day out from the pub on the Victory, a 32 foot Day Boat on hire from Norbury Wharf.
Best have some shots of the boat then:

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