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STORT REPORTER George Cutting Sue Higgs Treasurer Colin Porter Commodore Committee: Graham Riley Helen Smith Vice Commodore Mike Newman Andy Higgs Lorraine Newman Secretary STORT REPORTER George Cutting Sue Higgs Treasurer Colin Porter NEWSLETTER OF THE STORT BOAT CLUB February 2015 Issue no. 55 Editorial So thanks everyone and Good Luck to Sue in your Hi Everyone! new venture! I know I’m a little late but… Happy New Year Helen Smith everyone! Seems like a long time ago now. Now some important news from Paul Strudwick. Hope everyone is well. Now is the time for planning the summer cruises. There must be something to New Bookable Visitor Mooring Site at look forward to on these cold February days! There seems to be lots of interesting activities in this Rembrandt Gardens in Little Venice year’s Club timetable, do have a look. Now, I have all sorts of little gems of entertainment The New Year sees the Trust launch a new bookable and information in this issue, so let’s sit back and visitor mooring site at Rembrandt Gardens in Little enjoy! Venice, following positive feedback received during consultation on the Paddington Basin and Little Venice Helen Smith pool mooring proposals earlier this year. The Trust will be Editor working with Bespoke Boating Solutions, a local New Editor independent mooring provider who will operate the mooring on a voluntary basis, to pilot the scheme until As you all know, I have decided that this will be my the summer. last issue of the Stort Reporter. I have really enjoyed collating all your interesting Boaters will be able to book the mooring (free of and varied articles. I am so grateful for all the talent charge) during the pilot scheme, although this will within this club that has made my job of editor so be reviewed for the summer season in line with the easy. proposals made during the consultation. Bookings I don’t know of any other club with such aspiring writers! will only be possible online, up to one month in So thank you everyone for all your contributions! advance. The maximum stay time per booking From now on I look forward to reading the Reporter during the pilot period will seven days, with no under the guidance of the new Editor, Sue Barrett. return within one calendar month. To ensure that all I am sure Sue will be asking for contributions, we all boaters get a fair chance to use the mooring when love to read of others adventures and learn more visiting the Paddington area, boats will be limited to about the waterways from others. 14 days use of the mooring each year - 1 - Sorwar Ahmed, boater liaison manager for London, event of too high a concentration of diesel fumes, said “I’m really pleased that we’ve been able to the engine would have to be switched off until the provide this service for boaters wishing to visit air quality returned to safe levels. The gate was opened we began our journey through Paddington. It’s something we’ve been working on a the 3 mile tunnel. We have been through many for a while, so I’m delighted that Sarah Emmings at tunnels in our journeys round the canal system but Bespoke Boating Solutions has agreed to operate this was a completely different experience! Very the scheme voluntarily while we pilot it. I hope that narrow, very low in places, very high and cave-like in this new mooring provides another option for those other places, twisting and unpredictable. Some of it looking for short term moorings in London”. was brick lined but mostly it had been hewn out of rock with hand tools or blasted with explosives. The mooring, alongside Rembrandt Gardens in Dave was at the helm with our escort who gave Browning’s Pool, will provide up to three berths, advice and warnings of hazards to avoid. although these will be subject to size limitations. The first bookable moorings will be available from Monday 5th January 2015. The booking line will be open from 2nd January 2015 - for all enquiries and bookings please [email protected] Thanks Paul for the info. With any luck, it might help boaters to make sure they have an overnight mooring in Paddington when we travel across London. After about half an hour we stopped at a check point This year Dave and Jan Harris went on their and were amazed to see a CRT man appear out of mammoth journey up to the distant north. Here Jan the darkness to make sure all was well! There is a recalls one of her adventures. parallel disused railway tunnel along which vehicles can drive and there are adits (interconnecting A TRIP THROUGH STANDEDGE TUNNEL passageways) between the two tunnels enabling access. We stopped again on two further occasions, The Standedge Tunnel cuts through the Pennines again to record our progress. There is a telephone from Diggle to Marsden on the Huddersfield Narrow link too at the check points so the emphasis was Canal. It was completed in 1894 and took 17 years to very much on safety. build. It is the longest and highest tunnel on the system. On a bright sunny day in June, we arrived at the western portal with some trepidation about whether Lucy would be too wide/high/deep to fit through the tunnel. A CRT man arrived to measure our profile and to our relief we were given the OK. There were two boats ahead of us which left at 40 minute intervals. Our escort joined us with large fire extinguisher, hard hats to avoid injury from the low roof, life jackets and an air quality monitor. In the - 2 - On a couple of occasions we felt a rush of air as a The lock was rebuilt in 1827. In.1852 a new Lock train passed through another tunnel in the hillside. house was to be erected at Carthagena Lock...but There are actually a total of four tunnels, one canal, without a pigsty! two disused railway and one railway tunnel still in The original lock house was a single storey use between Manchester and Leeds. building unti,l in 1877, it was recommended that Eventually we saw that welcome sight of the light at the roof was removed and a further two the end of the tunnel, and finally arrived at the bedrooms built with an earth closet. Plans were eastern portal at Marsden after an hour and three drawn up but never undertaken. In 1936 a new quarters. A certificate was issued to say we had lock house was built at a cost of £800, which is completely the trip and we moored for the night the same as you see today, apart from the extra reflecting on the marvel of the engineering feat wing that was added. which had been achieved over 100 years ago. In 1953 the winter floods cut into the sharp turn Thanks Jan , What an experience!! of the river below Broxbourne Bridge, destroying the towing path. The most beneficial and Now for something a little nearer home, the second cheapest plan was to make a new cut and Towing installment of Mimis research on the History of Path across Mr Bosanquet's field. Broxbourne . We now continue our journey on the Carthagena Turnpike was named to River Lee with commemorate a battle in the War of Jenkins' Ear. - Carthagena Lock marks the defeat of Admiral Carthegena Lock Vernon and the British Navy when they retired from the siege of Cartagena in Spanish Columbia, after four weeks of intense artillery barrage in April 1741. The Crown Inn has been in Broxbourne since the Carthagena Lock was built as a turnpike in 1741 and rebuilt as a pound lock in 1767/8 in Broxbourne Gull, which was an existing flood channel, separate from, but roughly parallel to Broxbourne Mill Stream. Whilst not a man-made channel, it may have been improved over the years. The lock is 17.5 miles from Bow Creek and has a drop of about 5 feet. Directly 1700’s when it was known as the Crown Hotel, behind the lock is Carthagena Weir, part of a fishery popular with Victorian day-trippers and anglers. which also includes two lakes and a section of the It was also used by local companies who Old River Lea. encouraged their employees to participate in sports in the fields next to the Inn (probably the road called Crown Fields) and partake of a drink - 3 - or two in the hostelry afterwards. It even had a ceiling in the pub. Richard’s earliest memories masonic lodge. was at about 13 years of age, late 1957 early 58, In the 1930’s the current building replaced the when he would cycle from Edmonton to Old Crown Hotel, but built further back from the Broxbourne along the River Lea Saturday’s and water’s edge. Right on the bend fronting the Sunday’s. He used to make the tea and sweep up river was the actual original pub and the Inn and for Harry whilst learning about the construction lodge were where the pub is in situ now. of boats in general. Broxbourne Bridge carried the Old Nazeing Road The boatyard was compulsory purchased in 1973 over the Lea Navigation and was a toll bridge. The by the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority and was Hertfordshire and Essex boundary ran down the run as a hire boat centre for narrowboats, rowing boats, small motor boats etc. The boat yard middle of it. Whilst the original bridge has gone, the Toll House still exists in Old Nazeing Road.
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