A Day Out With My G.o.y Friends. "Marsden and The Standedge Tunn...

Glad you both had a great day out with your husbands.....looks a pretty place........intersting pics of the tunnel.....

great day you all had carole, seen this tunnel on tv years ago and showed how they got through it by pushing with their feet along the walls, amazing really, hard work to, interesting blog thanx carole ;o))

glad you both had a great day Pp. your photo's are beautiful.

Smashing day out ... lovely pix.
Glad you had a good time :o)

I can't imagine being 1/2 hr. in a canal tunnel in the darkness and how their legs will have developed muscles with all that effort. It's amazing that it got built and very nice that it was successfully funded to restore it to its former glory.

Lovely photos too PP....and now you can look forward to your next outing (and no doubt, another blog & piccies)...that will be nice to share in an end-of-year blog.

Very enjoyable blog and obviously a lovely day out for all of you, as you already know I also have a thing for history so thankyou for sharing, lovely photo`s it looks a smashng place to visit.........

Lovely, don't think I could have done the tunnel though. Lovely pictures well done, pleased you had such a great time.

Great blog! Does someone still push with legs through the tunnel????
Lovely to see GYO friends meeting up too!!! :)

i doubt it sparkly they are powered now, unless you are an historian thats the only time its done that way,

ha ha! of course! An engine! lol never thought of that!!! :-)

So pleased you enjoyed your day out...lovely weather too....very interesting to hear about the local area. Smashing pics.....the pair of you look very much at home there...lol :-)))))

A lovely blog and pics,Carole,you have captured it perfectly,and to say you are from t'other side of the Pennines,it is very nice to see someone else point of view..We love it here,but have never been in the tunnel before,but glad we did...and nice to do something on the spur of the moment...didn't even need the hard hats they provided for us either...Lol...so glad the Wars of The Roses was over a long time ago,as we would never have met up,would we ? :o)))

lol sparkly ;o))

Thanks to everyone pleased you enjoyed the blog.
Sparkly they have small electric Tug Boats to pull Boats through the Tunnel.
Whistonlass It took three hours to Legg a boat through the Tunnel, thats just 6d an hour , just imagine that!
The Guide informed us that the men employed in the very early days blasting their way through the Tunnel and working on the walls were paid 1d a day and camped out on the embankments without any cover or protection The Good Old Days I think not!

enjoyed your blog PP, it's so nice to see places I know I'll never be able to visit :-)

You must have had a great time together. It's wonderful that you can meet up like that.
I found the blog very interesting, but I wouldn't have been able to go through that tunnel for any money lol
Nice to live in a place steeped in history :o))

Nice day out and lovely photos of a pretty place - apart rom the tunnel - creepy!

Thanks Grindle, Hywel and Nariz
Yes we did have a great time together and luckyliving close to, the boat was a spur of the moment thing, there it was all set for leaving on its trip and a new experience so off we went. although it was a bit creepy it was so interesting and not to be missed;0)

Nice blog, lovely pics, especially the stocks. Weren't the husbands a little bit tempted though? :o))

Lol Bloomers was but not mine, too reserved for pranks like that;)

Ooh, terrifying - I hate tunnels, couldn't even look at the pics properly - like the other pics though, looks like a fun day out

Thanks Bamboo, shame you dont like tunnels missing a treat lol

it looks a lovely day out and nice to think that you all met on goy!
as regards the tunnel, we recently went to Guernsey and went to the underground hospital-- what a grim place--- wards in tunnels, operating theatres-- even the mortuary-- all cold (42degf) and running with water, what the professional photo reminded me of was some 'optical illusion' artwork on the walls of the exit tunnel -- as you passed it looking at the centre where the tunnel end was in the distance it always looked the same and seemed that the picture moved-- not you, like some paintings where the eyes follow you around the room--- spooky!

That does sound rather grim and scary Pam, dont think I would fancy that especially not the mortuary! the boat trip was a little creepy but it was mainly because it was dark and confined, it was really amazing how it was built and you could feel for the poor miners who worked building it, apparently they were paid 1penny a day, can you imagine having to raise a family on that even though it was a couple of hundred years ago.

Harry..? reserved..? lol.we hadn't noticed..! He just acts with decorum..sounds much better.:o))

lol ;0)

the underground hospital was built with slave labout called TODT? ( think of the 'boy in the striped pyjamas'-- some of them on display in the occupation museum) i think, they were not islanders but from the german camps, another thing that amazed us what thar some of the tunnels were used to store ammunition, its a beautiful island ( as are all the channel islands) I knew that they were occupied but not the details I'm reading novel at the moment ( referred to often in Guernsey) called 'the Guernsey literary and potato peel society'-- about living through the occupation

I think there is an underground hospital at Jersey too sounds very similar , what gruesome times! the novel you are reading sounds very interesting;0)

it is, I've read it before but felt , having just been there and toured the museums etc. it would mean more to me , and it is doing, a whole new perspective ( I do love reading ;o)))

I love these old canals they are always so pretty and have such lovely walks along the sides .. thanks for the history lesson as well Carole it's so much more interesting to learn something about the area through your lovely pics. :o))

Pam I love reading too mainly novels though, a couple of chapters every night, helps me sleep too!

Thanks Amy pleased you enjoyed it;0)

I enjoy novels mostly too and the guernsey one is a novel but with true historical facts, there are some very good ones ( can't remember the titles) about the canal boaters and the life they led living in the tiny cabins with a family of children to bring up and up and down the 'cut' in all weathers and the bosses ( fellows-morton-clayton?) they bring history alive
( I also like a good murder if they don't spend too much time on the 'gory bits') happy readingPansy ;o)

I will look out for the book you mention, Pam...about Guernsey (hopefully through our local library which is only a few steps from our front door...:)

We watched a tv documentary a few months ago now which opened my eyes to the history behind the occupation of Guernsey....I really enjoyed it so reading the book would be a bonus. Thanks for mentioning it.

I am spending too much time on the puter these days and finding I'm not reading as much as I normally do..tut tut!!
lol

Mine is from the library Whiston-- its quite a small library but a nice place to be :O))

I'll certainly ask about it...thanks Pam. Our library is pretty small too but they will get books in for you if you put in a request.

yes, ours get a change of some every week on rotation and you can take a book out in the village and take it back to any local library or vice versa--- I'm lost without a book to read :)

What a lovely, interesting place you chose for your most recent meet-up! Many thanks for sharing it with us. :-))

Thanks David pleased you found it interesting;0)