Tourist Stamps » Canals and Rivers http://touriststamps.co.uk Tourist Stamps Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:57:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc No.185 The Yorkshire Waterways Museum http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-185-the-yorkshire-waterways-museum/ http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-185-the-yorkshire-waterways-museum/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:25:57 +0000 admin http://touriststamps.co.uk/?p=940 The Yorkshire Waterways Museum offers an extensive collection which tells the story of the Port of Goole, the transportation of coal, the lives of barge families, and the boat building tradition of our ancestors. Registered in 1995 and extended in 2001, The Yorkshire Waterways Museum celebrates the social and economic history of the canal port of Goole and its associated compartment boats and hoists, and present day links with the Humber, Europe and the Yorkshire river and canal network. More than 7000 documents, photographs and artefacts comprise a Collection and Archive whose largest object is the working Tom Pudding tug Wheldale.

Address:
The Yorkshire Waterways Museum
Dutch River Side
Goole
DN14 5TB
Tel: +44 (0) 1405 768 730
For opening Times & Prices please see: www.waterwaysmuseum.org.uk
GPS location: +53° 41′ 40.63″, -0° 53′ 17.13″

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]]> http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-185-the-yorkshire-waterways-museum/feed/ 0 No.24 The Canal Museum – Stoke Bruerne http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-24-the-canal-museum-stoke-bruerne/ http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-24-the-canal-museum-stoke-bruerne/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:30:23 +0000 admin http://touriststamps.co.uk/?p=851 The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of inland waterways. Displays, and the Museum shop and café are housed in an atmospheric restored cornmill. Inside you’ll find a treasure trove of stories, exhibits and collections that explain and bring to life the rich world of Britain’s canals. This fascinating and colourful insight into a transport system, fundamental to the industrial revolution in Britain is complemented by the “living canal” outside with its flight of locks, boats and Blisworth Tunnel.

Address:
The Canal Museum
Bridge Road
Stoke Bruerne
Towcester
Northamptonshire
NN12 7SE
Tel: +44 (0) 1604 862 229
For opening Times & Prices please see website: www.nwm.org.uk/stoke
GPS location: +52° 8′ 32.85″, -0° 54′ 54.26″

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]]> http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/no-24-the-canal-museum-stoke-bruerne/feed/ 0 No.143 Caen Hill Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/caen-hill-locks/ http://touriststamps.co.uk/rivers/caen-hill-locks/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:45:48 +0000 admin http://127.0.0.1/?p=9 This flight of 16 locks may be the most impressive anywhere on the UK’s waterways. They were engineer John Rennie’s solution to climbing the very steep hill in Devizes, and were the last part of the 87 mile route of the Kennet and Avon canal to be completed. Because of the steepness of the terrain there was not the space to use the normal arrangement of water pounds between the locks. As a result, the 16 locks utilise unusually large side ponds to store the water needed to operate. The Caen Hill Locks are part of a longer 29-lock flight at Devizes, all packed into just over two miles.

Address:
Rowde
Devizes
Wiltshire
Website: www.waterscape.com
GPS location: +51° 21′ 7.92″, -2° 2′ 5.64″

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