15.10.19
We woke to our first misty morning today.
The Admiral and Vice Admiral conferred over maps and books, while the galley slave cooked up a storm for breakfast.
It was calculated that we had enough time to make it out to Anderton and back. The rain had stopped so we hightailed it off to Middlewich Junction, and turned left. This meant we were saying a final farewell to the Shropshire Union Canal and returning once more to the Trent and Mersey Canal. It was Grahame’s turn to negotiate the corner. Great job!
The trip down to Anderton was very pretty to begin with. The canal was characterised by lots of blind corners and a narrow channel. I was driving and found it fun and challenging.
At Broken Cross the scenery turned ugly. The Lion Salt Works and Tata Chemical Works dominated the landscape. Pretty bridges were replaced by pipes and gantries.
The Anderton lift is an engineering marvel. It’s job is to transfer boats from the canal down to the River Weaver and vice versa. Boats float into a ‘tub’ at both canal and river level and are then lifted/lowered hydraulically down to the river or up to the canal.
Our mooring for the night was picture postcard beautiful in the evening sunlight.
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