John and Ann wrote: > By no less an organ than the Daily Telegraph (now you know which > paper this boater reads) today - snips:- > > A down at heel and niffy part of London will bear the name of Prescott > forever. BW yesterday announced a £15m lock and flood control > structure on the R Lea , which will be essential to the Olympics, it > will be called Prescott sluices. It's close to where a storm outfall > for the East End sewers enters the river and has been called Prescott > channel since the 1930s. Officials ...revealed by their grins > yesterday that the structure will always be associated with their > former boss. (Snips) there will be a more important function of > preventing raw sewage reaching the Olympic Park. Mark Bensted, BW > London director, said 'This is the most important waterway > restoration project in the country'. And of course it will perpetuate > the name of Prescott. > > Seems to me there's more than one topic for discussion here!!!! > > John
So this bit of navigating will soon be history.......... http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Stuffimages/Pict3980.jpg Coming up Prescott Channel on the start of flood (rattle rattle!) Under the bridge is the junction with the Three Mills Wall River. Left for the residential mooring and the backside of the tide mills and right for the rest of Three Mills Wall River and then Waterworks River. http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Stuffimages/Pict4010.jpg The Backside of Carpenters Road Lock from Waterworks River. http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Stuffimages/Pict4025.jpg Coming back down Prescott Channel on the ebb. There is a handy bridge height gauge on the residential mooring pontoon just down the stub of Three Mills Wall River. Get it wrong and you get stuck under the bridge, the tide fairly whistles out of here! TNC advice to intrepid boaters, see the Bow Back Rivers, tidal stuff 'n all, before it is history. We were so looking forward to it we left it as our climax! :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest (Retired) / Barge Maurice A (on the drawing board) Follow the traveled TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/ygtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
