Up this morning after a bit of rain in the night, but bright this morning, we leave our mooring and straight away into a lock one of sixteen known as the Lapworth flight, we were going to stop half way up but as luck has it we are helped by three volunteers lock keepers, so we carry on to the top. With their help its a breeze and it not to long before we moor up for the night, we make the volunteers a cup of tea and a few choccy biscuits as a thanks for the help.
The village of Lapworth sits between the Stratford and Grand Union canals with three pubs, a village store and Post Office,notable residents include Bob Davis aka Jasper Carrott, Andy Townsend ex-footballer and TV pundit and Tony Iommi, the guitarist and founding member of Black Sabbath, who currently resides near the village, also Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame lived in the area.
A ghostly tale from this part of the canal is in the big freeze of January 2002 a narrowboat owner was sitting in his warm canal boat reading when he heard a loud crack and a muffled thump it sounded like the ice had split opened and also the sound of someone thrashing around in the water.He investigated fearing that someone had fell through he ice he went outside with a torch and was unable to find nothing out of the ordinary with the canal frozen from bank to bank.The following morning he spoke to a waterway employee of his concern and was told that he was not the first person to experience this, and then told him that a many years ago a man had fell into the water through the ice after a night of drinking and had died, and since then many persons have told of this ghostly sound.
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Also at the now closed British waterways office at the Kingswood Junction footsteps were heard walking around in the top room but on investigating no one was in the room and on one occasion during an office meeting the door to the computer room opened and to then slammed shut with no explanation as how or why it had happened.
Sleep tight...
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