My first ever canal holiday from the 24th to the 31st October 1987.
My parents have been on at me to reduce the amount of my old boxes of stuff still at their house and whilst sorting out some old paperwork lurking in a wardrobe I found a notebook of mine in which I had recorded dates and places of the canal trips I'd been on.
My first ever canal holiday was in October 1987. At the time my mum was a Girl Guide leader and this was a training trip in order for her to get some kind of certification to take Guides on the canals. We hired a 70 foot narrow boat called Water Eagle from a company based at Fenny Compton Marina on the southern section of the Oxford Canal and took it to Oxford and back. During the holiday I recall visiting the now closed bygones museum at Claydon and having a burger in the burger bar at
RAF Upper Heyford.
Somewhere in another box is a scrapbook I made at the time with pictures and more details but at least for now I have the dates and places which I'd previously forgotten during the last 28 years.
Day 1: Fenny Compton to Claydon
Day 2: Claydon to King's Sutton
Day 3: King's Sutton to Kirtlington Quarry
Day 4: Kirtlington Quarry to Oxford
Day 5: Oxford to Kirtlington Quarry
Day 6: Kirtlington Quarry to Banbury
Day 7: Banbury to Claydon
Day 8: Claydon to Fenny Compton
