towpath treks: the blog

I was given this photograph recently, it shows a horse boat called Martha Alice passing under a bridge. The Boat The boat appears to be...

Thursday 16th August the Kennet left Liverpool after spending time in Salthouse Dock. Having nothing better to do I went down to take some ...

Today is the Solstice, the longest day of the year. I'm still not sure if we have already had our Summer; I hope I haven't missed my...

Today I drove to a very sunny Skipton for the Waterways Festival. On the way I must have crossed the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at least 6 ti...

ON January 12th 1939 the Army Council of the IRA sent an ultimatum to the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. They received no reply so...

Today was the last day of the Burscough Canal Heritage Week. Kennet, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Short Boat was visiting Burscough, the ...

Occasionally I will buy a postcard or two from ebay. It's a fairly cheap way to buy canal memorabilia and the photographs are an interes...

March is my month of rebooting my New Year resolutions and doing lots of things that may not be enjoyable but are good for me. As part of my...

As part of towpathtreks on going mission to visit the pubs of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal  we headed off to Lancashire. The first pub wa...

One of the nice things about having my website about the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (and other canals) is the emails I get from people with t...

I have slightly redesigned the pub pages on www.towpathtreks.co.uk so I thought I had better do some pub reviews and add some new pubs to t...

Time to add some new pubs to Towpath Treks Canal Pub Guide . You would think that going to a pub, taking a photo of it and having a pint wou...

Today we went to the Windmill Hotel in Parbold for lunch. Sadly I was without the official beer taster so no beer reviews today. But I can s...

Today along with www.towpathtreks.co.uk 's official (and unpaid) beer reviewer, Kate, I visited 6 pubs on the western end of the Leeds ...