Daily Archives: 05/03/2022

Thursday 3rd to Saturday 5th March 2022 Having booked our transit through the Standedge Tunnel, we now had to ensure that we reached Diggle in time. We knew this would involve some long days travelling and plenty of locks. Day 16 started well as Martin kindly picked Matilda up, took her to his house to use the newly installed shower and then to do some grocery shopping before we set off. The Macclesfield Canal took us past the mill where the wheat was originally ground to make Hovis bread between 1898 and 1904. When milling had to be moved to larger premises, the old mill became the site where the paper wrappers were made. Now converted into apartments, you can still see the archway which led to the wharf where boats could unload their cargo under cover directly into the mill. And so began our eight hour journey. The Puss in Boots commands a prime canal side position and would be a good spot for an evening sundowner by the canal. We saw several herons on this canal each standing so still that at first we both thought it might be plastic. We watched the third heron we saw plunge into […]