Sad News

Yesterday, the 10^th May, we moored just north of Scholar Green on the Macclesfield Canal. If you look at the map it’s obvious that we’ve hardly moved in the last 10 days.  Just short of Fradley Junction we’d received news of a family bereavement which meant we needed to moor up somewhere safe and concentrate on family business and get to Yorkshire. We chose Stoke-on-Trent as our base; we could hire a car a short distance from the canal and leave Bacchus in relatively safe surroundings.

After visiting the Memorial at Alrewas we took a couple of days chugging towards Stoke spending a night at Trentham and visiting Trentham Park Gardens.  Arriving at Stoke all the local marinas were unable to help us with space so we decided moor close to the CRT workshops, outside the Industrial Museum at Etruria.
After 6 days we felt able to leave Etruria and continue our journey, we’d planned to stop just north of Scholar Green and visit Little Moreton Hall.

Close to our mooring is Ramsdell Hall (c1760) a private residence close to the canal.  The house predates the canal, the original course of which was planned to pass to the rear of the house.  During construction of the canal it was decided to change its course and pass to the front of the house instead.  After negotiations it was agreed that the builders would erect a metal fence, placed on the top of a wall along the opposite side of the canal.  This gives a ha-ha effect from the fields below.

Ramsdell Hall

The Fence

 

The Agreement

Tomorrow we visit Little Moreton Hall.