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With the snow and ice melting almost everywhere these scenes will soon be a thing of the past.

With many of the canals completely frozen, and some of them several inches thick there haven’t been many places with boats moving anywhere.

The centre of Birmingham has been no different, with just one exception. One of the trip boats has been making daily excursions from its base on the Oozells Street Loop to Gas Street Basin and back. But why?

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George, the Floating Coffee Shop, is run by Sherborne Wharf and it need to be supplied with water from time to time, and to visit Sherborne Wharf occasionally for diesel and pump out.

The only way to be sure of access is to break the ice daily with a return journey by the trip boat. If they missed any day it would soon freeze too thick to get through when you needed to. The trip boats are being lifted out for blacking in the next few days so ice damage to them isn’t a worry.

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Posted on Thursday, 14 January 2010 at 19:24        Comments (2) 

 

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  1. Hi Paul,
    I’m seeing no images for this, nor indeed any jpeg images from your /images/months folders in other blog entries – but other jpgegs and pngs are showing fine.

    Comment by Stephen Dawson — On 19-01-10 at 12:51

  2. Stephen: Thanks for highlighting the problem with the missing photos. An upgrade to the WordPress software I use for blogging went horribly wrong and it’s taken a couple of days to sort it out. The missing pictures should gradually appear over the next few days as I go through the posts manually to sort out those with corrupt links.

    Comment by Paul — On 21-01-10 at 09:08

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