Uxbridge, the capital of the RAF bombing of something or other. Anyway, yeah, the air war over Britain
was fought from here, so that's kind of cool.
It's, we haven't really explored too much but it's a little bit urban, as you can probably hear. Yeah, and
it's got kind of like, it does, indeed have, what, from what the Nicholson's guide
has, a bit of a sort of modernist feel of buildings, that aren't really very
modern anymore. Urm, but, yeah, you know. Nice enough little town. Obviously we
were heading towards London, but there is the small matter of the Slough arm to... Which will be taking us away from London.
Yeah, and we were a bit apprehensive because... read what it says... Well mainly because of
two things in here. In the Nicholson's guide it it mentions that Slough is.. was
immortalised in verse in 1981 with the words; "Come friendly bombs and fall on
Slough, it isn't fit for humans now, there isn't grass to graze a cow'. So that
doesn't exactly sound... Do we want to go to Slough. Like, do we want to go to Slough?
Haven't been to slough. And then, I got onto this bit here... There is navigating the arm itself.
Yeah, so it describes the Slough arm and it says, it quote, 'It passes dull
housing and industrial estates on its way to the terminal basin on the
outskirts of town. This waterway is now badly stilted and the basin is in a
sorry and decrepit state, making progress for all but shallow drafted craft both
difficult and unrewarding, as a navigation is rapidly falling into the
user to or losing category'. So that also doesn't make it sound great. Difficult and unrewarding! Yeah. Doesn't sound inviting. But, this is
from 2010, and I did a bit of googling, and apparently it was heavily
dredged in 2014, and people who went down it in 2014
described it as, unrewarding but not difficult. And we also asked our Twitter
followers if anyone had been down it recently, and nobody had said they've been
down it, but we found out there's a festival there, a waterways festival there
every year, so, and I think that's only half way down so... Yeah, that's a feed
marina, it's that's Ivy or Ivor Marina, it's just a little bit ways, it's
actually like a third of the way down. Yeah, and London boat Girl said, like she
found on 'local Facebook', she said that it was a, a... A poop hole. Yeah, But we're going to find out for ourselves. Yeah, Yeah, we're going to find out
because we going to do it. And according to the Canal Plan, it's only an
hour and a half to the end, and a hour and a half back. Which might be because people are
rushing to get there and out. Right, so it might just.. we don't know. But there's no locks,
once we get down there. Oh, we've got one lock to do. Yeah, one lock to do between here and there. We've got to
stop briefly at Cowley Bridge, just above the lock I think, to deal with water and
and waste and all that sort of stuff. And probably slough terminal, and back.
Yeah, I'd want to be off the Slough Arm today I think. Okay, Unless we find anything Spectacular.
Yeah, so to Slough and back. The Journey.
Here's a little holdover from my former life in movie equipment rentals.
These are some of the guys that make the best movie cameras in the world.
And also most of the lighting gear.
Jo's running up to Lidl, I'm heading down towards the next lock,
she's gonna meet me at the next lock. George, is down there.
Georgie's following along on the boat as he cannot go to Lidl.
So we're at Cowley Lock and the Cowley Sanitary station. Urm. where there is an elsan,
and water. And the water is a pain in the butt. We've travelled about half a mile today, it's taken
us about an hour, and it's not been fun. So I got off at the last bridge. To walk
over to a Lidl, in search of chocolate croissants, which there were none.
So we had croissants which was fine. But what there is is this lovely water point,
this lovely incredibly helpful water point, and you may have noticed, that after several
iterations of, of it squirting into my shoe, I've had to do a little bodge job repair
with a shoelace, because every time we tried to turn the pressure up, the hose
lock would shoot off the end of our, non hose lock brand nozzle thingy, and I'd
end up with a foot full of water. It happened like three, not it happended about five. Like seven times. Yeah.
Its just.... [sigh] The water is nearly full. The water is nearly full. So eventually at some point we might get
onto the Slough Arm. Yeah, which is still down south of us. Down this lock, yeah. What a day.
Oh, Tree. How are you finding the Slough Arm? Well it's slow going. It is very shallow, especially
on the sides, the middle of it is deep enough that we're moving, but we're not
able to keep up much speed. We've just gotten to bridge four, so we're basically 2
miles in. Of 5 miles. Just about 2 miles in of 5. Urm, what I'd seen on the forums was
something saying that it had been dredged in 2014, from the Ivor marina
all the way through to the basin. But that they'd run out of money for the
project to do this section here, where we are, from the marina to, to the junction. I
hope that's right and it's not the other way around. Well there's a couple of
turning points if we can't get any further, but also... Yeah one of them is
coming up in a second, and I'll be amazed if there is actually a turning point. And um, its ver pretty, like I was
expecting industrial all the way, but it's lovely so far isn't it. Oh year, no,
it's this, you know I mean, it appears that either, either side, just on the
other side, like here there's a fence on the left here, and on the right there's
some sort of hill, and it appears that on, you know, you go more than a couple of
meters either side of the canal, and it's just industrial wasteland. But its just a little haven. Because
we're basically like just a little bit north of Heathrow right now. Yeah there's
a little bit of noise but other than that, you wouldn't know really, no I mean, and an
enormous amount of birds, and... Yeah... and you know just lots of little coots and
everything in their nest and mud hens. So yeah, we'll see how far we can get.
So once we got past bridge four, The Slough Arm's not too bad. Basically
there's a lot of, like agael mats and growth down, there but it's not actually
stuck to the bottom, and it's not really, like it's just sort of floating around,
it's not really so shallow here that there's a problem with navigating.
That said it's still slow moving because there's just so many boats,
along here. There just all moored along. And they have got shallow water beneath
them, where it's a large amount of algae's developed
sort of solidified underneath them.
So we've made it to the end of the Slough Arm and its... well its just fabulous.
Okay, so the first couple of miles were really rough going because they were
very shallow, then we got the bridge four, passed bridge four they, at some point, done a
fairly significant amount of dredging, so from there the navigation wasn't too
hard. Then we got past bridge eight I think it was, from the moment we passed
the turning point, you saw the bubbles coming up out of the water?
That was methane, as we were disrupting everything down there, and the smells
started coming up with the methane and everything. And I'm like, well that's pleasant. But then you started
passing just enormous amounts of garbage bags and trash and... it's disgusting. Yeah, it's like the
worst we've seen. It's like, there is trash floating on the surface like, there is water
bottles and stuff, but actually in the canal there is just plastic bag after
plastic bag. Yeah there's like full trash bags, full bags of diapers, there's... Shopping trolleys.
Shopping trolleys, there's all sorts of garbage and stuff, up until we got to all
the bubbles, once it started bubbling that's when it got really gross. I mean were
glad we've done it, to say we've done it. I'm glad we've done it. It's
really tragic because honestly. It could be nice. It could be really nice, I mean okay the end here
is in a part of town were there is nothing. Yeah, but if they just
put a couple of moorings here and..
So anyway, would you recommend people doing it. I'd say yes, i'd still say yes its worth it. I'd
say everybody should do it just to see how bad it is. The
fact is there's so much junk, that I think that people should call attention to it
Yeah, because its when you started getting into the urban area. And like you can see it,
there's a couple of yards where people have just decided to just throw
everything over the side of the yard. We passed a heron thats standing up there, it's like the
skinniest heron I've ever seen. And in the water there's a massive
amount of fish, swimming around through the handles of plastic bags. Its sad. It's really sad.
So that was a very long day.
And we didn't get very far because we sent down the Slough Arm. Yeah, which was a long day.
We did, we did like 15 miles today. Yeah 10 of which was the Slough Arm and back. So we went down
the Slough Arm, so you don't have to. Yes. Don't bother. Unless you want to tick it off like we did.
If you want to tike it off, or if you want to... If you just want to just chill out I'm not
see anything. Or, if you just want to have like a moment's reflection on just how
badly human beings can ruin their waterways, uh, yeah.
You know what I forgot to tell you when we were at the end? No What? When we were in the basin, we
were two miles from the mooring in Eton that we were at last June. Like a year ago.
You know what you need to play on the video? Once we get to the end there. Two
seconds of the doors; The End. This is the end. Underwhelming end.
Yeah, it really was extremely underwhelming, but it was worth ticking
off the thing. We can say we've done it. You don't have to. So then we came back down and we turned back onto
the main, is at the main line? Main Line Grand Union. And we were going to stop but then we just were
being a bit picky about moorings, because we thought we wanted one in the shade
but the sun is pretty much going down now so it doesn't matter. Because we are probably
gonna move on tomorrow. So we have stopped past the junction with the
Paddington Arm, so we're heading down to Brent... is it Brentford or Brentwood?
I think it's Brentford... Arm towards the Junction with the Thames. So we're not
gonna go on to the Thames here, but we'll be coming past the junction
Brentford makes more sense doesn't, its because it's the place where the Brent
River meets the... Yeah. Yeah. Well I don't know what it is. But we're not going on to the Thames, it's
with the place where but we're going past, but it's basically just so we can
join up at route really and do everything. Which is annoying because
there's quite a few locks I think, down there. Stop saying it's annoying, this is
the goal. See it all. It was like, it was a good, day but I didn't... I feel like
we didn't really achieve much. We didn't achieve anything. It was so hot. You know, I
mean, it was kind of a goofball day, mainly we were just ticking off an
experience, and I think we got ticked off on that experience, but that's good. I
want to get out of London. Like we haven't even gone into it yet. We've just started into London. I know. And you're already talking about getting out.
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Come friendly bombs and foul on Slough. It
isn't fit for humans now, that isn't grass to graze a cow.
You said foul, its fall. What? You said foul on Slough, its fall on Slough. Did I say foul? Yes. Ah, right. read it again.
...but but then it's just down to.. Is it Peachy Cowley or Cowley Peachy Junction?
Yeah. Okay, well there's a there's a junction that sounds fruity.
Ah, Im just... there we go.... good shot of you. It's all about me.
It makes more sense for me to go back and move the bus.
haha. There's a bus, we've got to show them this.
there's a bus trying to towed, and um, its not going well.
it's a very humped bridge. That bus is sort of having some problems.
So, at any moment I might spin around and show you a bus falling over. We're a little distracted.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
I expected better out of Slough (sluff) but urr, Slough, yes i know, its pronounced differently. [sigh]
Because I don't know where the Lee and the Stort really go, but the go up. and then back and the forth
and then, you know. on.
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