Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Audlem and Adderley

Graham was up at 8am and we were off at 09:15 having had a very peaceful night alongside the ‘secret nuclear bunker’ (Sssssshh!) The offside fields were full of Canada Geese along this section. 


 

We arrived at Audlem bottom lock just after 10am and made steady progress up the flight of 15 locks meeting boats coming down at most of them.


 

Some of the top lock gates in these locks are leaking very badly as shown in the photos below but I suspect they are very low priority in CaRTs maintenance budget as they are within a flight. The gates on both the top and bottom locks were noted to be in good order.





 

Out of the top lock just after 12 and so we pulled over just after Kemps bridge for lunch before tackling Adderley flight of 5 locks. Lunch taken during a heavy rain storm we then continued on once it had stopped.

A boat was just leaving as we arrived so the first 3 locks were in our favour with just the last two needing turning. Out of the top lock and the rain returned so Graham donned a coat and steered through the rain for about 15 minutes.

We moored up on the visitor moorings between bridge 64 and 63 in Market Drayton (MD) just before a thunderstorm arrived.


 

After dinner, with the weather dry again, we walked up into MD and visited the Joules Brewery tap at the Red lion Inn. Then called into Asda for milk and provisions on our walk back to Jannock.

G&B

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