Wired
The canals system has many memories of the days when canals were used for commerce rather than pleasure. This crane is one of them. There were no electric motors to make lifting easier in those days. If you wanted to get something heavy off the boat and onto the wharf you had to crank it off by hand. We stopped at a chandlery today, in a huge marina. It was a little walk from the towpath, through some parkland, with…