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randomduck.bsky.social
I found all 4 pair of my heavier winter cycling gloves last night, and for this morning's C&O Towpath ride I wore the older Specialized semi-lobster ones with old-school Gore Windstopper. They were toasty!
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
tylerfage.bsky.social
It’s not a bad view
A view from the bow of my narrowboat showing the water, towpath and a bridge
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
wavesounds.bsky.social
leaf drifts
📷olympus xa
🎞️kodak double-x

#filmphotography #streetphotography #b&w #london
a person with lots of curly hair sits on a bench on a raised platform on the thames towpath. mostly bare trees overhead, lots of leaves on the ground. strong light and shadow
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
towpathtalk.bsky.social
Great boat names: How about this one, spotted by Towpath Talk follower Craig Hughes!

Seen a boat with a great name? Drop a photo in the comments or by DM...
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
markfford.bsky.social
The canal towpath at Ors where Wilfred Owen died.
Lest we forget.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
dwindlingcow.bsky.social
“Still talking, she set off down the towpath, and pretty soon was swallowed by the shadows.”

From Slow Horses, a book by Mick Herron (2010)

#bookquotes #booksky #spy #London #slowhorses #writersky #witty #fiction #spynovel #BlueSkyWritingCommunity #alliteration
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
lhcrt.org.uk
At Tamworth Road Narrows our volunteers have been hard at work - digging out at the curve and laying another concrete base (ready to extend the wall), bricklaying the towpath wall and clearing the canal channel of vegetation.

Well done team!

#Lichfield #WeDigCanals
An orange excavator lifts a bucket of soil at a fenced construction site surrounded by autumn trees. The machine sits on reddish-brown earth, with residential houses partially visible through the foliage in the background. A deep excavation site with curved retaining walls made of bricks and concrete blocks. Water flows from a pipe at the bottom, surrounded by scattered construction materials. A wooden fence, green shed, and houses are visible beyond the site. A volunteer in a high-visibility vest and rubber boots stands in a canal channel, working near the brick wall. Scaffolding and wooden planks line the canal, with tools, buckets, and a large white bag placed on the canal bed. The scene shows active restoration work in a historic waterway. A person in a high-vis vest and blue hard hat uses a shovel beside a wheelbarrow filled with debris in a narrow, brick-lined canal channel. Above the channel, a grassy embankment with shrubs leads up to a white picket fence and residential garden.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
chilton-bb.bsky.social
On this day in 2017, I was at a conference in Manchester and as I had time, walked there from Piccadilly along the Rochdale Canal. (I found myself passing the site of the legendary Haçienda, now gone.) All utterly transformed since I mooched around there in a trench-coat in the early 1980s.
A canal, winding between tall modern blocks of flats whose balconies overlook the water. A steep cobbled path (in fact the towpath of a canal rising up at the foot of a lock) with a modern red-brick building to the right; part of the lower floor is made up of steel bars against which are set steel shapes with curving edges and writing on them (in letters too small to read). A steel gate with sections cut out of it and lettering stamped into it, in minimalist type, reading '"Now that's finished. You won't see the haçienda. It doesn't exist. The haçienda must be built." Ivan Chtcheglov 1953'. A steel fence, made of solid sections with curving edges set against sections of steel bars. On one of the solid sections is a stencil-style image of the Manchester cultural provocateur and journalist Tony Wilson.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
coollightofday2.bsky.social
Walking alone along the leaf-thickened towpath he remembered the time he'd told her all he felt, releasing years of feelings shut up by the days and their leering allure. Told and told.

He said the words now, walking the leaf-thickened towpath. Because he'd not said them before.
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
geoff67.bsky.social
Here’s a photo of Dilly ruling the towpath beside our narrowboat. She would walk on the lead from one lock to the next
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
towpathtalk.bsky.social
Our 📸 PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, just above Kinver by ‘Geese Beach’. Taken on 30th October. Photo by Towpath Talk follower Jay Banbrooke AKA @nbeliza.bsky.social .

Thanks to GJW Direct for supporting our new weekly social media feature!

#towpathtalk #gjwinsurance
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
bopterror.bsky.social
I’m not sure about tunnels, and towpath continuity, but I think it’s possible.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
infrastructure-ni.gov.uk
Lagan Towpath will be closed due to resurfacing work from Tullynacross Road to McIlroy Park Ballynaskeagh Lisburn from Monday 17 November to Monday 15 December.

Further closures are planned along the towpath.

Info on further closures: www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/articles/lag...
Graphic with the words Lagan Towpath works
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
alrightholdon.bsky.social
The d&l half marathon, it goes on the towpath from bethlehem to easton
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
wavesounds.bsky.social
national covid memorial wall
📷olympus xa
🎞️kodak double-x

right across the river from parliament. each heart is a person, and it just goes on and on and on. extremely affecting
#filmphotography #streetphotography #documentaryphoto #b&w #london
towpath, southern bank of the thames. the wall on the right side is covered in thousands of small painted hearts. many have names written in them. a large simple plaque indicates it is the national covid memorial wall
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
robertfoxon.bsky.social
That totally captures the atmosphere of walking a canal towpath in mid-autumn.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
nicktankard.bsky.social
Stuff of this mornings walk.
A canal towpath. Autumnal trees either side of the path and canal, leaves on the ground and floating on the surface of the canal. The trees reflected in the water. A Heron having a nose (a beak) about near a fast flowing weir. Graffiti on a crumbling old red brick farm building. Sunlight shines through a human sized hike in the wall. Undergrowth all around. A small farm track descends towards a flatland of trees. A drystone wall on one side with winter trees arched over it, more trees on the other side. A hazy morning sky with a hint of sunshine through the broken clouds.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
andrewcrowther.bsky.social
Saltaire this morning
A very atmospheric photo of the canal near Saltaire this morning, taken from the towpath, with the morning sun seen through mist. Leafless trees to left and right, the canal with a boat moored on it,
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
noswpod.bsky.social
Golden leaves that sheltered me during the summer heat now rest upon the same still waters that carry me.
Hawthorn leaves stream upon slow wind eddies that I am unable to feel.
A squirrel looks down at Maggie.
My boots slide on mud.
Towpath tales.

#ukcanals #naturewriting #DailyNature
A gloriously golden coloured ball tree blazes in the light of a low western sun. Rafts of leaves lie on the mirrored waters that reflect the blue sky. A muddy towpath follows the line of the canal to the left. Maggie (black and white dog) sniffs the narrow grass that lies between towpath and canal.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
davidbeech.bsky.social
I'll start by saying I'm a runner myself, but when you're running in a group - say a towpath - actually you're a bunch of rude and inconsiderate dicks if run at people and don't give others space. I'm OK I'll call you a c*nt but the elderly lady walking her dog didn't need that at 730 in the morning
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
shadowedeyes.bsky.social
c.1774-vintage original and now truncated line of the Oxford Canal disappears under an iron bridge built c.1834, when the canal here was straightened to better compete with the Grand Union for Midlands–London traffic.
#boatlife
#ukcanals #canal #narrowboat
#KeepCanalsAlive #FundBritainsWaterways
Photo of a pair of canal bridges at sun down, with autumnal trees painted gold by the setting sun. An iron-railing bridge carries the towpath over the original line of the canal that bent sharply right and is now just a short arm. Beyond that, an arched, brick bridge carries a road over the straightened section of canal that eliminated the bend of the original canal, thus shortening the route.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social
Colours by the canal
A canal with yellow leaves on the trees and on the towpath. Two canal boats are tied up at the right of the scene
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
owainsutton.bsky.social
I love seeing our great cormorants arrive on the canal (my daily commute is along the towpath), wintering away from the Atlantic coast.

The anglers hate them, but I'm totally on Team Cormorant. Have all the carp you want, lads.
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
bruciestokes.bsky.social
Walking mostly the canal, we set off in clouds and we're treated to sunshine later
Strava activity map and stats showing a route from Blakedown to Stourbridge. Distance is 16.60 km, time is 3 hours 51 minutes, and elevation gain is 142 meters Sunlight streams through autumn trees over a dark, calm canal with an old boat moored to the bank Canal junction.A picturesque canal on a sunny autumn day. The water reflects the colorful yellow and green trees lining the banks and the bright blue sky above. A stone bridge and lock gates are visible in the distance ​A brightly painted narrowboat moored alongside a canal towpath in autumn. The boat's bow features traditional red, yellow, and black diamond patterns. Another person is walking away from the camera along the muddy path, and other narrowboats are visible on the water and reflected in it, surrounded by trees with colorful foliage
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
davidbutlin.bsky.social
Joggers, vloggers and doggers along the towpath today. And what a lovely day it was for it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM