Cycling on the towpath

3d4life

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/1431695578728210439

Once again DFB saves the day :)

Potential-Monke

Tow path?

Wildlife Actor

Yeah, the horse would go along the towpath, towing the barge along the canal. Later, the barges got engines.

Potential-Monke

You learn something new every day!

3d4life

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821015#Comment_117821015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey7hswiAWyk

For example :)

edit : that YT clip linked on to a lovely 1993 Dick Warner series starting with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8l3e76u5nA

Its a shame that so many of you have not known what it was to live in the era

HerrKapitan

Serves him right for cycling on the path. Towpaths are for tows not cyclists.

magicbastarder

do they use camels to tow barges in egypt?

Wildlife Actor

"and how did they get through tunnels in the days of horses?" "well, I'm glad you asked me that. they... legged it" (someone can probably upload a vid)

Spook_ie

I actually tried legging a barge through a tunnel a few years back on a visit to the Black Country Musuem in the West Midlands, fascinating insight into 17th, 18th centuary life in the industrial Midlands.

Spook_ie

https://youtu.be/qcJYsjMQpHA

SEPT 23 1989

I presume they fell into the lock

Hurrache

There's no lock near there, most likely around the Deep Sinking, it's a pretty rough section with a deep drop down into the canal, and a site of a number of deaths from a barge accident a long time ago.

Effects

Friend of mine nearly went in a few years back at the deep sinking. There was a tree partially down, and he tried to cycle under, rather than get off the bike.

He fell, but luckily didn't go all the way down the embankment.