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And in Irish we say Nollaig shona! I know Cornish is from the same language group as Irish but Welsh... usually I can never understand a word of it!

Many years ago I tried filling up the disused dock at Tesco. I got it about half full before I gave up, filling was very slow. But it emptied very quickly. And it does drain down into be River Crane at the nearby aqueduct. The Crane eventually flows into the Thames at Isleworth.

Thank you all. I have now made contact with them.

Does anyone have contact details for Bulls Bridge Drydock in Southall (Grand Union)? I cant find details for them anywhere.

Thank you everybody. Excellent information.

I was there yesterday. There was only one boat there. It was empty so I couldn’t ask, but it looked to me as if it’s solitary nature meant the owner had paid for the isolation. I was there yesterday. There was only one boat there. It was empty so I couldn’t ask, but it looked to me as if it’s solitary nature meant the owner had paid for the isolation.

Ah ok, thank you. Because I am only ever passing through staying for a night or two I have in the past sometimes used the working boat area opposite. Do you think that area near the entrance to the arm is ‘patrolled’?

Does anyone have any local knowledge of the new mooring situation along the Paddington Basin arm - from the entrance at Little Venice to the end. As best I can see, the jetty moorings beside Marks & Spencer are on the £25 a night booking system. I thought the other moorings are not part of that system. But I spoke to a couple on a boat moored outside the Tube station and they had paid £25 a night. Are there any free moorings left? Along the workboat space under the A40? Outside of the bend by the old hospital building? Any information would be appreciated. I am not a CCer, I'm just looking for a visiting space for a night or two that doesn't cost.

Thank you so much for your perfect responses. The rich value of forums. You have answered my original question completely!

Excellent, thank you. Google Earth has nothing earlier than 1999 and those buildings were already gone. by then.

Many of my maps show three bridge structures over the Grand Union (Paddington Branch) at Southall/Northolt. But as long as I have been on this canal there has never been anything there. I have searched all the usual places for some historic record of what was there but I have found nothing. This Taylor Woodrow mosaic is on the bank where these bridges were. Does anybody know what was there?

Perhaps it is symptomatic of our complex time. Essentially, I was just asking, would this pump empty a shower? Reliably? Would this £22 pump empty a shower tray, if situated lower? I thought it was a simple question.

Hi Tony, thanks again for your input. The failed pump was an impeller type (star shaped spinning wheel) located lower than the base of the shower tray. My core question is, would a pump like the one I linked to above work in this application? (Emptying shower water) It’s the difference between £20 and £100!

Thanks Tony, I may have the terminology wrong. The failed pump has one of those star shaped rubber wheels that spins inside a circular void. A Whale Gulper costs around £100 but there other (similar on paper) pumps that cost much less, an example is linked below. Would something like this work? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brushless-Water-Pump-800L-H-5M-DC-12V-24V-Solar-Brushless-Motor-Water-CircuH164-/203540022080?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l6249&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

My shower pump has failed and needs replacing. Centrifugal Impellor type pumps seem to be the favoured type of pump for moving waste water overboard. But this type seem to be much more expensive than the Diaphragm type pumps used in systems like boat central heating. Is there any compelling reason why a centrifugal pump must be used for shower water? Or would a disphragm pump work just as well?