After ascending the sixteen Marple locks yesterday we are having a couple of days moored in town ,Although this does mean being in close company with other boats and people
today we checked out the shops in town and did some food shopping .

This head is carved into the key stone of one of the lock bridges but with nothing  to say who it is or give the significance of it 

On some of the locks as we fill them the water has to be let in through a gate paddle which makes an absolute torrent of water right in front of the boat

Here we are moored in company