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A cracking photo

BordesleyExile

BordesleyExile

master brummie
I had wondered how canal ice was cracked. The answer is here. The men would stand in the boat rocking it from side to side like this:
 
Great photos Bordesley and the read on your link also great, thanks.
As a 'young-un' I saw ice cracking being done on the Tame Valley canal, we were skating and sliding at the time, so we were not best pleased.
I remember the ice soon refroze all lumpy and we couldn't skate anymore.
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Just caught up with your post B.E The canals are a world apart aren't they, there is something magic about them. Thanks for sharing the old photo's.
 
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