just checking the world news before turning in , and came across this ... seems the folks who operate the Leeds Liverpool canal have run out of water , and are thinking about closing the section between Wigan and Gargrave ( Yorkshire ) so I guess that means the part which runs thru Hyndburn
BBC News - Drought could close part of Leeds and Liverpool Canal
wonder what provisions the Victorians who engineered and built it had in mind for such a situation.
Guess it could be a good thing , give them a chance to clear out all the srcap metal on the stretch in Church behind where Rothwells used to be , a place where more than one apprentice got shut of a cocked-up job.
