| But by the time they had entered the pound where the narrowboats were moored, the swan was nowhere to be seen. |
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| Two narrowboats will be accompanying us on the way so we will have somewhere to sleep each night. |
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| Most of the protestors scuttled inside their narrowboats and waited for the wintry squall to pass. |
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| Next day was a fantastic, if a little chilly, trip on the Regent's Canal with Jason's traditional narrowboats. |
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| Watching narrowboats passing through the lock in Bradford is one of the town's colourful summer sights. |
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| Seventy-two narrowboats blocked the Bridgewater canal in Cheshire in protest at plans to close a 200-year-old shop. |
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| It will be quite a sight to see narrowboats travelling over the top of the new road. |
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| The company also has two 30 ft narrowboats which are hired out by the day. |
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| The basin fills up with colourful narrowboats from far and wide, and the banks are packed out with the folk who congregate at events such as this. |
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| They don't have narrowboats there so they think our boat is astonishing. |
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| If anyone has ever seen the brightly coloured narrowboats sailing through towns like Lancaster and Skipton, they will know that the restoration scheme should go ahead. |
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| The event is to be held a little earlier in the year next year and will be centered around the narrowboats which queued up for ages to be blessed. |
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| There are more narrowboats on the canal than cars on the little road. |
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| Ducks flap as they swim out of our way and everyone says hello as they pass, either in narrowboats or along the towpath. |
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| There are 46 pontoon spaces for narrowboats in the dock, which can only be accessed via an assisted passage down the Leeds-Liverpool Canal link. |
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| Instead, electric tug boats hauled narrowboats through the tunnel. |
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| Narrowboats go at about walking pace, and for a while I got extra exercise walking beside the boat and chatting to the others on deck. |
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| Narrowboats and dogs didn't seem like an obvious combination to me. |
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