Navigation bound

 

Thursday 18th. September.

 

It's out of Brighouse Basin, on a grey & murky morning & into the land of the ubiquitous 'Handspike'  a fiendish device, like a baseball bat, used to operate the unique Calder & Hebble  lock gear.

 

We pass the entrance to the Huddersfield Broad canal at Cooper Bridge and

 

 

continue through Battyford to Mirfield, stopping for lunch & a quick trip to the CO_OP.

 

Shepley Bridge is rather pretty and takes us down onto the river through Dewsbury then in & out of cuts to

 

 

Horbury Bridge & Calder Grove where we moor up for our last overnight stop at the Navigation. An old friend joins us for a cuppa & I fetch fish & chip for supper!