{"id":705,"date":"2023-07-19T01:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbtallulah.co.uk\/?p=705"},"modified":"2023-07-19T01:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:07:28","slug":"carr-house-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Carr House Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After I left my mooring at Great Haywood I went through the lock and I stopped at the conveniently located boater services right by Great Haywood junction. This junction is where the Staffordshire &amp; Worcester Canal which comes from Wolverhampton, joins the Trent &amp; Mersey Canal. I will be coming up from that direction on the way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230719_090226-3072x1730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-632\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230719_090317-3072x1730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-633\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I had originally thought that this boat below was coming through the bridge and I slowed down. After passing under the bridge I discovered that he was moored up, perhaps a little too close to the bridge making transition a little more difficult than it should be. A bit like parking your car too close to a junction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230719_110553-3072x1730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The scenery around here was great, especially with this farm right on the top of the hill. The road to it looked a tad on the steep side but I doubt the farmer would have any problems with his tractor or his highest spec Range Rover 4&#215;4. It appears I didn&#8217;t get any closer shots but it definitely was a steep hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230719_1106410-3072x1730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230719_093916web.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These videos were from Sandon lock, I believe, which was a short distance before I moored..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230719_094104web.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I had moored just north of Carr House Bridge (89) and this was in the middle of nowhere, ideal for me. The name is taken from Carr House nearby but I couldn&#8217;t find out much more information about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mooring was extremely peaceful and on this occasion, I was not invaded by a multitude of other boaters, which was nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230719_143150-3072x1730.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-658\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I nearly forgot this short video of some bovine frolicking. Quite entertaining really as they are all bullocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230719_164848web.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frollicking Bullocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I left my mooring at Great Haywood I went through the lock and I stopped at the conveniently located boater services right by Great Haywood junction. This junction is where the Staffordshire &amp; Worcester Canal which comes from Wolverhampton, joins the Trent &amp; Mersey Canal. I will be coming up from that direction on the way home. I had originally thought that this boat below was coming through the bridge and I slowed down. After passing under the bridge I discovered that he was moored up, perhaps a little too close to the bridge making transition a little more difficult than it should be. A bit like parking your car too close to a junction. The scenery around here was great, especially with this farm right on the top of the hill. The road to it looked a tad on the steep side but I doubt the farmer would have any problems with his tractor or his highest spec Range Rover 4&#215;4. It appears I didn&#8217;t get any closer shots but it definitely was a steep hill. These videos were from Sandon lock, I believe, which was a short distance before I moored.. I had moored just north of Carr House Bridge (89) and this was in the middle of nowhere, ideal for me. The name is taken from Carr House nearby but I couldn&#8217;t find out much more information about it. The mooring was extremely peaceful and on this occasion, I was not invaded by a multitude of other boaters, which was nice. I nearly forgot this short video of some bovine frolicking. Quite entertaining really as they are all bullocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-the-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbtallulah.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}