Postcards from the Leeds & Liverpool Canal
I’ve been involved in a rather special journey over the last week or so — accompanying my friend Duncan Davis on his narrowboat, Pearl Barley, from Skipton to Leeds.
Defiantly imperial, Duncan briefed me ahead of our mission:
“The total distance is 28 miles, 7¾ furlongs and 28 locks. There are at least 32 moveable bridges of which 3 are usually left open and 20 small aqueducts or underbridges.”
The journey took five days, albeit at a leisurely pace. The time taken to travel home to Newcastle by train from Leeds? 90 minutes!
A longer blog post beckons once I have sifted through the hundreds of photographs I’ve made. In the meantime, I’d like to share my favourite Instagrams from the journey with you.
All made with my iPhone 4s and edited with Nik Software’s Snapseed, I view them as a kind of scrapbook for formulating my thoughts whilst also acting as modern day postcards, winging their way into the timelines of my followers…
Jane isn’t the first person to describe me as gorgeous. It is really quite understandable.
I think I might have been the first ever to do so…
Yes it is, Bond-esque I’d say.
This is a beautiful post Jack, I particularly love the photos of the barge and the trees, ‘The stoves keep us warm during a chilly, misty morning at Saltaire…’ and the one of Duncan Davis in the pub, it looks like a still from a 60’s French film – gorgeous!
Thanks, Jane. Glad you like them. It’s been nice to look back through them actually — yes, they are rather good, aren’t they? 😉
Yes they are! : )
Who is the old bloke you got to play me?
Some handsome chap I found wondering the streets…
…Sean Connery.
It looks splendid and verdant, glad you had fun.
Splendid and verdant it was too — a great way to describe it… JL