Essendee Narrow Boat: On to Shardlow

They promised heavy rain today but the weather is sunny which is a blessing, we had a quiet night at our mooring, just the odd sound of an airplane going over to East Midlands airport, awoke early but didn't leave our mooring till 10.00hrs

We leave the Cranfleet canal and back onto the Trent for a short while, before going on to the Sawley cut, where we top up our water, then through the flood gates onto the Trent again before joining the Trent and Mersey Canal. Whilst going through the lock at Sawley we meet a group of French holiday makers setting out on their first narrowboat holiday. Altogether today Denise operated 3 locks today with. One of them being a electric push button lock, which makes it a bit easier.

We then moored at Shardlow which is a pretty village with a lot of canal history and a few canal pubs as a bonus. As said before it host an 18th century warehouse " the Clock Warehouse" and "Shardlow Heritage Centre . In 2009 Sawley was blighted with a smell coming from waste products being legally dumped onto nearby farmland. The smell was dubbed the Sawley Stink. A dedicated group of local residents campaigned successfully to put an end to the process and Sawley was soon free of the stink, thankfully for us. Saying that there are some nice house dotted around the village, another fact about Sawley is that the average age is above 65, for all of you that need to retire.