Not a day with too much to write about as our primary aim was to make as much progress along the Bridgewater Canal as ;possible so that we can get to a useful railway sgtation close to the canal by midday tomorrow. Andrew will be going home and Mike will collect our car from Aston Marina ready for the return home on Saturday. Fortunately, apart from a short period of very light drizzle it was dry and at times sunny.
OK, so we did have to cover about 100 m of the Leeds and Liverpool until we passed under Leigh Bridge!
At Worsley this famous bulding is always a candidate for a photo! However, this time the reason is that we spotted an estate agent's sign outside the half timbered house. The details reveal that it is a three bed house over four floors. There is little land and only one dedicated parking space but also a share in a garage. As far as we can see, it is just the right hand side - the left is currently a dental surgery. All for £375K.
We have see this bridge construction just south of the Trafford Park shopping centre for some time now and wondered what it was for. Since we came here a couple of months ago the tram's e;lectric wires have been installed so that settles it!
We turned right at Stretford Waters - Manchester lies the other way, which we passed along at the start of this cruise.
By late morning we were at Stretford Marine where we had arranged to collect a replacement fuel cap, lost in the water at our last visit. As we arrived two other boats were already tied up being serviced so we had a wait mid stream until there was room for us to pull in. We also needed water, elsan, rubbish, gas bottle, coal and diesel! Whilst it is a small business they are very friendly and most helpful - cannot recommend them too highly at what they do.
Once we were ready to leave we cruised non-stop until our night mooring, just a little short of the Waters Meeting junction at Preston Brook. there were several pleasant sunny spells.
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