Even the figure on the tow path is in despair!
Trencherfield Mill is now an office and apartment block. Apparently it still contains the original steam engine which occasionally "steams".
We were lucky to share locks with a narrowboat who we have been playing cat and mouse with since leaving Liverpool. It makes life so much easier when there are two boats in a wide lock. We turned right avoiding the route to the Wigan 21 flight. We have no wish to do those again. Now we were on new ground and headed for Leigh. The area is full of flashes filled with water where the land has subsided. At Dover Bridge the two locks have even been removed due to fluctuating levels but you can see where the locks were as the canal narrows.
Some of the mooring bollards are nicely painted!
After passing through Plank Lane Lift Bridge, which used to be manned but is now worked by boaters, we moored and took a walk around Pennington Country Park which has a sculpture made from enormous lock gates.
Yet again we returned to the boat as the rain started. Cosy inside but it looks very miserable outside.
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