We set off through the stop lock at Hawkesbury Junction. It's only a drop of 6 inches but it was put in to stop the Oxford Canal Company stealing water from the Coventry Canal Company.
As you may have guessed, we're now on the Coventry Canal. And here's a view looking back towards the junction.
The early parts of the canal are fairly straight, running along the back of Bedworth. We pass the bottoms of gardens and a reasonable size school and, of course, Charity Dock.
There are different mannequins every time we come this way.
Some people say it's a mess but we love it. Many bloggers also comment on the rubbish in the canal around here but we've never noticed that. Further on through Nuneaton possibly so but not here.
Now we're passing the entrance to the Ashby Canal.
It's a tricky entrance because you have to make a 100° turn, not an easy thing to do.
Goodness gracious, what's this?
A gigantic factory/storage facility on the outskirts of Nuneaton.
I took this picture to show the scale of the building. There are two men on the roof somewhere to the right of the crane. But even I have a job to see them. The building is humongous!
One thing I do like about Nuneaton is all the allotments.
No shortage of water for them with the canal close at hand.
For some time we have been following a boat that plods along very slowly. Now, we're not in a rush but, sometimes, slow is not fast enough.
Anyway, he made frantic signals that he was going to turn his boat around.
And here he is stuck broadside across the canal. We helped him to get unstuck and, after that, managed to increase speed a bit.
We journeyed past some lovely places where we have moored in the past but we wanted to get to the old BW Hartshill Yard.
It's a little bit of canal history which is still in use today. Moored for the night just through the bridge all ready for sausages in cider. Yummy.
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