We left Coopers Bridge, passed through Brighouse and made the three locks at Salterhebble.
The first of the three has a guillotine gate...
The gate was installed in the 1930s because of the adjacent road being widened...
In the lock..
Tom on Waiouru waves to some "fans" Leonie is ready to operate the electric gate and Jan is trying to earn some extra cash doing dog minding...
Slowly Slowly....
And the Guillotine is nearly down..
Onto the second lock of the three but no room for two NBs...
Looking across to the third lock waiting for two hire boats to emerge. When you exit here and the other NBs pass on the RH side it makes for a tricky entry to the third lock...
Leaving the third, another done one NB at a time even thought they're double locks....
Not concentrating I turned right up the "no exit" Salterhebble branch. Leonie yelled out "OOIIYY where you going"?.
So I had to reverse back into the lock and turn left which was right...
There is some nice stretches...
And the tow path has come good....
Arrived at Sowerby Bridge and moored for the night.
Once a thriving canal town as the Rochdale canal ends here and with shorter locks from her on on the Calder & Hebble goods needed to be off loaded here onto the shorter NBs to continue...
The town didn't have any real stand out sights except for the local councils lack of a "pick up litter"regime and it was pretty messy even around the retail and food precinct .....
Canal basin area with converted warehouses....
Leonie lent a hand to help....
Jack O Locks and his Grandson open a lock....
In the misty distance stands...
Next day leaving the Sowerby 1st lock...
Then after the second...
Turn right and go through a tunnel to the side of the church....
Entering the tunnel...
It's got a turn to the left...
To exit and then enter the deepest lock on the canal network...
Waiouru leaves the tunnel to enter the lock...
Has to be booked to use and operated by lock keepers...
At 19 ft, 8.5 inches deep... you wouldn't want to get the NB hung up on that sill coming down.....
These gates must weigh about 5 ton...
No pushing them shut... they have a wind and push/pull arm mechanism....
Leaving the deep lock...
Because it requires a lot of water to fill..
The next 2-3 miles of canal was seriously low on water.. keep to the centre or it was run aground....
Something new......
On to...
Edward Kilner lock were again only one NB at a time in the double lock..
Because...
The sides are moving... can't see the LF end on this side...
And using the sides of the NB as a straight edge... a bit of a turn in on the RH side...
A nice...
"Gentlemans Residence"...
And more...
Canal side mills... walls look a little "wonky".....
Passed this...
Aviary with no boundaries with Buderigar's singing "Sweet nothings"....
Passed beneath...
Halifax Road Bridge... another with a bend...
Moored in Hebden Bridge..
First night was by the town centre were stupid people feed the stupid Canadian Geese and other Geese and ducks that then all sit on the concrete wharf and Crap everywhere but what's worse during the night they have a territory disagreement and two different breeds of geese plus ducks and chuck in a Swan or three make a bloody terrible racket that puts living next to your worst neighbor childs play...
So today we moved to the other side of the canal to were a hire boat came along and decided to do a cool reversing manoeuvre, after he missed the landing to stop on the other side of the canal, and smashed into our boat.
So that was it. Decided to move once more and go through a lock to escape to a quitter mooring...
There were plenty of people watching....
HaHa, aren't you the NB that just got hit and dosen't like Geese??..
Moored up again...
Still painted bikes hanging around from the Tour d France passing through town...
Went for a "tiki tour" around town...
A row of ordinary homes have fine finishing detail...
Up a hill on a corner...
The tapered houses fit the site...
Downtown was....
Busy.. St George square.... "The Shoulder Of Mutton" pub in the rear.....
The old council Chambers building... 1890s.......
The way in.....
The River Calder runs through town....
Cobblestone weir??..
The houses....
Rise from the town centre and leave in rows on the side of the hills...
Old mills converted to appartments...
Between rows of houses...
Cobblestone paving....
And the town has a genuine....
Old Movie theatre which was "Showing" ... and a "Real old school Milk Bar"... advertising milk shakes and ice creams....
Took a look at the....
Rail way station.. nice building, 1893... signal box opposite...
Those were the days...
No trouble to add some extra detail in the build....
In town there is a .......
Steel walkway between two buildings...not a usual sight...
And on the Arts Centre building was...
A sun dial that Leonie said was showing the time as 4.20pm... wrong I said looking at the phone as it was 5.17pm... WRONG ... allow for daylight saving .. sun dial was right....
Between two rows of houses...
These are the front gardens.....
And around the rear....
Hang out with the neighbours.....
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