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This message was updated on 11/23/2004 3:57:52 PM by Azzabuv

 Erewash, Cromford and Nottm. Canal Junction.
replied on: 11/23/2004 3:36:48 PM
What you've stated at the beginning of your last line Suzard, says it all. That song - 'Those were the days, my friend, those were the days........................'
We actually felt it was near perfectly true at such times... but..................

Personally, i can't remember much of that old boat, only vaguely. I was the same as you, but not looking at boys - but i still saw the Summer scenery, well, sometimes.

As for the boat, perhaps its last days had come and it was cheaper than paying towing or repair costs.
Anyway, those were glorious boating days. No doubt the old Erewash is much busier now. Not the same at all.

Yes, it was the 'Cut' and the 'Cut-side'. I used to believe it was called that name because you could 'cut' from one village to the other in a practically straight line. But perhaps it was actually called that because of the Irish navvies who had 'cut' the Canal through the earth?
Azzabuv.
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