Day 143 .... 03.10.13 .... Hawkesbury Junction

Started off this morning going through the locks at Atherstone.  Again autumn is beginning to be more obvious with misty mornings etc.... but we are still lucky with the weather  

This is an old British Waterways Yard which is at Hartshill and still rather magnificent.

The hill in the distance is the spoil from a huge quarry, known as Mount Judd after the company who dug, and are still digging, the hole!! It is about a mile away !

This is the most eccentric boat-yard we know of.  It is full of dummies dressed in different regalia,, old boats, bits and pieces.  ....................

........................................ the kind of place where you could find any thing.  Need to find out who owns it.  There must be a story there.

....................... here is the pumping station at Hawkesbury Junction, where we are going to leave the Coventry Canal and go on to the North Oxford Canal to Braunston.

................. great old bridge at the turning point, of which more tomorrow.

This is The Greyhound at the junction, which is a definite top 5 pub of the summer's journey, hence the three photos.  Good beer, top cappucinno, good atmosphere and locals.  Bizarrely the most appalling sound system over the p.a.

............... as can be seen, very boaty

................ and full of knick knacks.