A beautiful sunny morning greets us this morning, we break our mooring and head on down the Grand Union, we pass the very exclusive area of the Home Counties the village of Denham with its host of celebrities that reside or have reside there, including Roger Moore, Cilla Black, And Sir John Mills. Here is Denham lock, the deepest lock at 11ft 1 in.
We then pass the town of Uxbridge, where during the Battle of Britain the late Air Marshall Lord Dowding directed it from the RAF headquarters. The town has a lot of new modern buildings of which some hug the canal.
We approach our last lock of this trip number 89 but it will also be our first of our return journey, it operated by a Canal and River Trust volunteer Richard Wynne who is also an author of a few books on the subject of the Grand Union Canal.
We then approach the end of this journeys navigation, the arm to Slough, which we won't do this time around, so a quick turn around and back to retracing our steps and all 89 locks back up the Grand Union.
We then return to last nights mooring for another night Justin time as the heavens open and tips down with rain.
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