Welcome news about dredging.

[oldgit]

As by now you all be aware of the great effort and the substantial amounts of cash that the authorities are spending to improving facilities on the river.
Yet more welcome news is the intention of carrying out dredging on a fair portion of the navigation.











Shame its not on the Thames /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
More good News

 

[boatone]

If you're not careful, Fred, we'll be calling you an Old Git !!!

Still, it is an EA navigation so who knows.........

 

[Chris_d]

Their just testing the equipment on a minor navigation before they move to the more important royal river /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

The amount of rubbish and litter at Allington will break the dredger which will then spend 3 years "being serviced" but the drediging will still be claimed as having been set in process

 

[Nauti Fox]

Its starting off at Allington on Monday, the same day as I'm bringing a boat down from Yalding.....I'll probably damage it with wash.

 

[oldgit]

Have you seen our new "EZY Worx-Fast-Auto Fill" locks ?
Before.

After.

No tedious winding up paddles etc....
All pix courtesy of the Allington Lock website.


Ps Ahem,,,,,are you Thamesietes aware that you only managed a "me to" mention in the Magna Carta.

"JOHN, by the grace of God King of England,............
it goes on and on bit and then.....

(33) All fish-weirs shall be removed from the Thames, the Medway, and throughout the whole of England, except on the sea coast.
........and then the last bit.

Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign (i.e. 1215: the new regnal year began on 28 May).
Windsor....Staines .....never heard of em.

And if there is a bit of river bank you have got your eye on,you could try this..

(47) All forests that have been created in our reign shall at once be disafforested. River-banks that have been enclosed in our reign shall be treated similarly....
...worth mentioning when the alledged present owner waves his shotgun in your general direction and you are legging it up the towpath.. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif