After serious thinking Martin Clark wrote :
> John Slee wrote...
>> --- In [email protected], Bruce Napier
>> <br...@...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Derek on Gypsy Rover reckons Bridge 1 on the Coventry is the smallest
>>> on the system
>> We wrote the same on our Epiphany Blog on 16th February - there's a
>> picture as we went through the bridge: see
>>
>> http://nbepiphany.co.uk/jcms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
>> d=237:the-back-story&catid=44:journey-blogs&Itemid=119
>>
> Looking at the photo of your boat "squeezing" through the bridge I think
> it is not at all clear that it is the smallest bridge! Why - you've
> still got your chimney up and a luggage box on the roof, with plenty of
> room to spare!
>
> It will feel small because of not having a towpath, but it doesn't look
> particularly narrow when you compare with some of the lock tail bridges
> on the Peak Forest, Huddersfield or other narrow canals. It looks low
> enough for the steerer to have to duck but there are plenty of other
> bridges where that is also true. For instance, gang planks on roofs
> often scrape the top of the new bridge at Old Bank in Slaithwaite. Isn't
> the bridge on the Bumble Hole Arm pretty low? (although not particularly
> narrow) (or am I thinking of another one nearby?)
>
>> - the information comes from Coventry Canal Society Guide to Coventry
>> City Basin, which is displayed on one of the walls in the Basin.
>>
> Well, they would say that, wouldn't they? I'm sure some of their members
> believe it but that doesn't make it so!
How about Nell bridge on the South Oxford when there is a bit of fresh
in the Cherwell :oÞ
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