Yesterday we booked to come down Frankton locks today on the Montgomery canal. They are only open between 12 and 2 pm each day and you have to book so that numbers can be limited (only 1270 boat movements a year are permitted). We have only come down the four locks and moored in the old arm of the Weston branch which is disused. There are water points and picnic tables here and it is very quiet (apart from a police helicopter which is polluting the atmosphere with its noise)!
We left Llangollen on Tuesday afternoon and had a very pleasant if rather slow cruise through the various narrows down to Trevor and then over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct mooring just beyond at Froncysyllte for the night. This gave us the opportunity to walk back and cross the Aqueduct again but on foot and take more photo's, visit the basin and partake of some liquid refreshment at the Telford Inn.
Wednesday we had a rather late start but continued down the Llangollen through Whitehouse and Chirk tunnels and on through the two Marton locks. Very slow progress as a queue of seven boats had to clear in front of us although we watered up while we waited. We mooredjust beyond the Maestermyn House bridge on vary pleasant open moorings again provided courtesy of the Shropshire Union Canal society.
Weather is still very mixed and unpredictable, showers and breezy one minute and then bursts of hot sunny interludes. Took Mac a walk on down the canal this afternoon past the Graham Palmer lock and to the Perry Aqueduct. This was where a breach occured in February 1936 which led to closure in 1944. I seem to remember walking around the Frankton locks when they were still derelict and before restoration was started and there used to be a dry dock half way down which is now someones garden.
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