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S.J.Brooks

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    Alicia
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    Continuous cruiser and Harefield marina

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  1. Does anyone know about the boats down the side of the Marsworth flight
  2. IM back! been boating. Thanks Mark and others for support. Yes i am a new member i didn't realise that meant i was inferior. I was only trying to answer a question someone had. I just commented that i personally am affected and was attacked for it. I was not the first one to put out a whole post on a subject irrelevant to this forum. Every bit of the way i have lived my life for the last 15 years is currently under threat and i cannot actually see a future for myself, so i do not need unnecessary nasty comments from someone who obviously sees themselves as superior because they have been on an internet forum for longer! I only joined this site PURELY because of the harefield flash forum. I always thought canal forums were bitchy and had no interest in joining any. I thought this was a safe subject. Also Hs2 are cutting costs by keeping compensation low and by not APPEASING objectors (also known as people whose houses and the surrounding countryside that they love are about to be destroyed). The chilterns got the minimum tunnel extension that they were asking for. It is absolutely disgusting to blame the thousands of people affected by this ridiculous project for pushing the cost up by daring to object to their lives being ripped apart and their property undervalued. Some of these people or their families have lived in these places for decades.
  3. no it is not, this scheme will ruin hundreds of peoples lives and its NOT only my area that i am concerned about. The oxford canal will be ruined and the chilterns among others. Come and see the places and people affected and look at both sides of the story, before you make these nasty unnecessary comments. This forum is to do with sunk boats so i suggest you go elsewhere. Apologies to others having to read this
  4. Thanks, thats a really usefull site! So they built the 2 pits either side of the watercourse, which i think now runs through pit 1 and 2
  5. Does anyone know if the 2 lakes were originally joined? All the old maps i have seen show 2 separate lakes, but the rumour in the marina was that the land inbetween was filled in with rubble from London ww2 bombsites. There is is rubble all over this land, bits of brick wall, tiles, glass, old fireplaces and other stuff, plus lots of old watertanks. We found a knee of an old boat lying on the ground near the end. All the marina land has obviously been used for some kind of tipping, but was it ever dug out. Also why did they bulldoze through if the canal was already joined to Hawtreys via pit 2.
  6. I think you are on the wrong forum. This pointless scheme is nothing to with freight or capacity.
  7. They wont fill the lake, but if the road was widened it could affect buried boats. Stir up as much as you can, its gone through to the house of lords now, but the govt could still scrap it
  8. The road is still there and used by fishermen to access the lakes, hs2 were going to use it but i think that have changed or was limited, not that i would believe them. They would have to widen it alot to affect the buried boats. Saying that i wouldnt trust them once they have the go ahead they will do anything they want. They might use the end road of the marina too, but they say they wont. I always say IF it happens as this is the only hope i have left for the area i have lived in all my life.
  9. Im normally loitering somewhere near the slipway if you want me to show you where that boat is
  10. Its spread quite a bit over the last 15 years. Its deteriorated a lot in that time and i think has been partly burnt, which is no surprise, they even burnt the park benches soon after they went in! Has anyone measured the bottom?
  11. The spoil dumps at Harefield are planned away from the houses on the other side of Moorhall Road, well away from Hawtreys. The viaduct would ruin the marina and close the sailing base (HOAC) but shouldn't affect the sunk boats unless there are some in HOAC (pit 2?)
  12. you were in the right place, did you see the one on the bank? Also have you seen the one underneath one of your neighbours about 10 boats up from you in the marina!? (Probably the quickest reply you've ever had from me!) Are you sure that the wreck on the bank is a widebeam? We thought it was a spread narrowboat.
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