Mm Links March 2014 Week 5

rockfordill | 09:50 Sat 29th Mar 2014 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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This is 'Good King John II' back for his final week.

So we are now fully retired and living down on the River Arun in a small village called Bury. Very near to the seaside with all its attractions. But we have come down from a village at 600 ft in Surrey to more or less sea level in Sussex, and this winter the floods were almost too close for comfort.

Quite a coincidence really as I have spent over 10 years of my retirement so far working for the Wey & Arun Canal Trust (WACT) living up at the Northern end of the canal and now we are down at the Southern end.

The story of the Wey and Arun canal comes in “threes”. In 1815 it took 300 Irish Navigators (navvies) 3 years to build a 30 mile long canal, (and that with just shovels and wheelbarrows). Today WACT has just about 3,000 members who have been working for about 33 years and we have completed 3 miles of navigable canal !!!

It is often called London’s lost route to the sea. It was originally designed to bring war materiel and bullion from the Woolwich Arsenal up the Thames to Weybridge down the Wey Navigation (opened in 1651!) to near Godalming, down the new Wey and Arun Junction canal to near Pulborough and down the River Arun to the sea at Littlehampton or across the canal link at Ford over to Chichester Harbour. Thence to carry all the materiel to our English soldiers fighting Napoleon in France. A more direct and safer route avoiding the Goodwins, the Kent foreshore and French privateers in the Channel.

The sad thing for the canal was that Waterloo happened in 1815 just about when the canal opened so its raison d’etre disappeared in its first year of operation ! And WACT is trying to rebuild and reopen it. There are many many challenges today like a pair of lock gates costing about £25,000! But we press on.

Well it has been a pleasure serving you for the past 5 weeks and so many thanks go to Gen2 for steering me through the intricacies of cutting and pasting etc etc.

Good luck to you all and next week I will be happy to join you again in guessing the links!

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roopower

Morning all

Lock gates
Doggy paddle
Flood tide
Beach comber

kawakiri

Lock keeper
Paddle wheel
Flood plain
Beach house

andres

lock gates
paddle steamer
flood plains
beach comber

wickedtongue

Good Morning

Lock Keeper
Doggy Paddle
Flood Plain
Beach Buggy

baza

MORTICE lock
paddle STEAMER
flood PLAIN
beach BALL

Elspeth

Lock smith
Paddle steamer
Beach comber
Flood light

cupid04

mortise lock

paddle steamer

flash flood

pebble beach

middlestump

There is a bakery/coffee shop in Ferry Road, Shoreham Beach, where I can normally be found between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. I usually sit outside with a friend who has a silver mobility scooter and two lurchers. Feel free to join us, Your Highness.

Handbaglady

Lock Gate(s)
Doggy Paddle
Flash Flood
Beachcomber

deecee131

Lock Gate(s)
Paddle Steamer
Flood Light(s)
Beach Comber

ChrisHewat

Good afternoon ‘King John ll’, SHAZZA is going with:

Lock KEEPER
Paddle STEAMER
Flood BARRIER
PEBBLE Beach

And I’m going for:

YALE Lock
Paddle BOAT
Flood GATE(S)
Beach BALL

x-ray

DEAD LOCK
PADDLE STEAMER
FLOOD GATES
BEACH BALL

tearinghair

Morning all - well, it`s morning here in Sunny California (which greeted me last night with a 5.1 strength earthquake - interesting!). I`ll try
Lock DOWN
Paddle STEAMER
Flood PLAIN
BeachCOMBER