We left our moorings at Kilby Bridge bright and early hoping to be through Leicester before the schools came out at 3pm. Everyone said "Do not stop in Leicester". All the locks were against us but despite the hold ups we got through by 1.30pm. The Soar was down and the going good until we got to Thurmaston Lock.
These pictures show a partly open gate and you may well ask why did I take a photo of that. Welllll! This is as far as they would shut. Ian tried flushing water through, swinging the gate backward and forward but all of no avail. In the end we had to phone BW and ask for some assistance. Time was getting on now and the lady at the office said that someone would phone back. This they did at 4.30pm and said it would be a good hour before anyone would arrive. No problem for us as the mooring seemed okay even if it was on the lock landing. BW finally arrived at 6.15pm after having to come all the way from Fazely and promptly got lost. Well they tried in the dark to shift what ever was stopping the gate from closing and even when Ian went back to the boat for a torch so they could see what they were doing, didn't manage to shift it. " Someone will be back first thing in the morning" says the nice BW man, and sure enough at 8.30am they were there.
BW doing a grand job in removing whatever was causing the problem
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