> I have just been reading Septembers Canal Boat and it set me thinking > "Which is the slowest filling lock on the Grand Union" The author > couldn't make his mind up and hedged his bets by saying both Cowley > and Ironbridge lock is the slowest to fill.
As a regular southern Grand Union boater for neaqrly 30 years, Ironbridge gets my vote - ever since they re-built one side of the lock and comprehensively b*gg*r*d one of the ground-paddle culverts. If Cowley was that bad, they'd have done something about it by now, given that there is regular commercial traffic through it. -- Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
