Mike Stevens' UK Inland Waterways Pages

MIKE’S TRICKY QUIZ FOR SERIOUS WATERWAYS ANORAKS No.1

SECTION A : WHERE IS IT?
A1	Foxton locks	1 mark
A2	The Grand Union Canal	1 mark
A3	The Grand Union Canal (Leicester Section)	1 mark
A4	Bulls Bridge, Hayes	1 mark
A5	Grand Union Canal Carrying Company	1 mark
A6	The Royal Navy (It was one of their recruiting boats)	1 mark
A7	Mullicourt aqueduct	1 mark
A8	Well Creek	1 mark
A9	Middle Level Main Drain	1 mark
A10	Worcester & Birmingham Canal	1 mark
A11	Bournville	1 mark
A12	Cadbury's	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	12 MARKS

SECTION B : HISTORY
B1	The Leeds & Liverpool	1 mark
B2	1770 + 5 yrs	1 mark
B3	The Leeds & Liverpool	1 mark
B4	1816 + 5 yrs	1 mark
B5	(ii)	1 mark
B6	(iii)	1 mark
B7	(iv)	1 mark
B8	(i)	1 mark
B9	Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs	1 mark
B10	Arbury, near Nuneaton, Warwicks	1 mark
B11	Huddersfield, Yorks (The Huddersfield Broad Canal)	1 mark
B12	London / Essex (The Hertford Union Canal)	1 mark
B13	London (The Regent's Canal)	1 mark
B14	Torrington, Devon (The Torrington Canal)	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	14 MARKS

SECTION C : WATERWAYS MAPS
C1	Great Ouse	1 mark
C2	Salter's Lode Sluice	1 mark
C3	Denver Sluice	1 mark
C4	The Bow Back Rivers (in East London)	1 mark
C5	Summer 2002	1 mark
C6	The Frand Contour Canal	1 mark
C7	J F Pownall	1 mark
C8	Trent & Mersey Canal	1 mark
C9	Grand Trunk Canal	1 mark
C10	Hugh Henshall	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	10 MARKS

SECTION D : SARFLUND'N RULES, OK
D1	Norwood	1 mark
D2	Loughborough Junction (which is also a railway station)	1 mark
D3	London Bridge or Waterloo Bridge	1 mark
D4	The Eelephant & Castle (on the N Oxford canal near Hawkesbury)	1 mark
D5	Norbury (on the Shroppie)	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	5 MARKS

SECTION E : SOMETHING IN COMMON
E1 & E2	Same name ( HMS Belfast and nb Belfast)	1 mark
E1 & E2	Both built by Harland & Woolf	1 mark
E3	The Ribble Link	1 mark
E4	The Loxwood Link	1 mark
E5	The Leam Link	1 mark
E6	The Lapworth Link	1 mark
E7	nb Lynx	1 mark
E8	Thomas Telford & William Jessop(engineers who worked together on the Ellesmere & Caledonian)	1 mark
E9	Cumberland Turn, Regent's Canal	1 mark (½ mark for Cumberland Basin)
E10	Cumberland Basin or Cumberland lock, Bristol City Docks	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	10 MARKS

SECTION G : A LITTLE LIGHT RELIEF
G1	(c)	1 mark
G2	(c)	1 mark
G3	(d) (Neil Edwards is IWA's Executive Director)	1 mark
G4	(b)	1 mark
G5	(c)	1 mark
G6	Sean Neill	1 mark
G7	Mike Stevens	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	7 MARKS

In each line, give 1 mark for the pairing, 1 for the town and 1 for the waterway

A and H are both at Newbury on the Kennet & Avon Canal (both photos courtesy of David Cooper)

B and G are both at Limehouse on the Regent's Canal (B is recent, H in 1978)

C and D are both at Doncaster on the Sheffield & S Yorks Navigation (Both pictures date from 1981)

E and F are both at Titford Pools on the Titford Canal(E is at the 1978 National, F on the 1999 BCN Challenge)

SECTION TOTAL 12 MARKS

SECTION I : SADISTIC STATISTICS
I1	The height above sea-level of the BCN main line at Smethwick	1 mark
I2	The height above sea-level of the highest navigable bit of the BCN	1 mark
I3	57 years (from the closing of Standedge in 1944 to its re-opening in 2001)	1 mark for within 5 years
I4	The British Steel Corporation	1 mark (½ mark for Stewarts & Lloyds, who became part of the BSC in 1967
I5	The Macclesfield Canal is letter C	1 mark
	The Trent & Mersey Canal is letter F	1 mark
	The Oxford Canal is letter B (NB old editions of Edwards give the length as 77 miles, which is wrong)	1 mark
	The Thames is letter D	1 mark
	The Tame Valley Canal is letter A	1 mark
	The Trent is letter E	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	10 MARKS