As the "brains" behind the Folly Bridge protests of 1980 - 82 (girders were placed under the bridge reducing the headroom to 3 ft 6 because a lorry had knocked a hole in the pavement) that got the bridge reopened after *that* BW foul-up I find the crass ignorance that this displays absolutely appalling.
It took 2 years and 2 blockades of the navigation (Conveniently located for the Old Barge Pub) to reclaim the winding hole last time. Folly Bridge has restricted headroom (in that you have to go through with the chimney down but - If I remember aright - not the cans AFAIR The Lee is a commercial waterway with a public right of navigation up to the proper head which is the TOWN BRIDGE above Folly Bridge. Has anybody raised this with Roger Squires (IWA Chair of Navigation committee) or Herts IWA? Ray Butler [Owl] Down Shropshire
