We decided to leave early today as we have to go through Woodseaves Cutting, it is very narrow and not much
room to pass, so hopefully this way, we won’t meet anyone. We set off, it was a
dry day again, a bit cloudy at first, but the sun came out. Hard day today, as we have five locks to do
and travelling about 4 miles, wow how will we cope!!
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| Woodseaves Cutting |
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| Chugging through Woodseaves |
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| Leaving Woodseaves |
We got to Woodseaves Cutting and went through. It is an impressive cutting considering it
was cut out entirely by men without powered machines, makes you wonder when you
go through it, how they did it. We were
in luck, we didn’t meet one boat. As we
were chugging through, we heard a lot of squawking and saw a hawk which had
some prey in its beak being chased by a blackbird, I don’t think the blackbird
had a hope of getting any of the prey, but you never know!
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| Tyrley Wharf |
Went on to the top of Tyrley locks and stopped for water. The groups of buildings at the top of the locks are dated 1840 and are called Tyrley Wharf. Then it was time to go down the locks. The first, second and third locks were
against us, so I had to set them before we went down, but when we got to the fourth
lock and fifth locks, boats were coming up, so that was good as we went quickly
through them.
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| Leaving Tyrley Locks and the queue behind! |
There was a queue of 3
boats waiting to go up, that was lucky, we were going the right way for
once! When we came out the lock, because
of the moored boats, we got stuck on the side, but Kev got us off and on we
went to Market Drayton and moored just before Bridge 62.
We went up to the town and it is quite a nice town with plenty of
shops, three supermarkets, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl, also Argos, all the big
banks and Wilkinson, so a good place to stock up on provisions.
Had a wander around, then back to the boat. We are staying here until Thursday as on
Wednesday there is a market and we thought we would stay and see what it was
like.
Think you must have found a different Market Drayton! We wished we hadn't wasted half a day walking there (and not finding a butcher, but lots of run-down empty shops) – but perhaps our impression was influenced by the long walk as I was still using a walking stick then. I expect it is different on market day.
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