Day 0: Friday 26 June.

This morning we headed East, from our hotel near the railway station, to find the start of the Leeds and Liverpool canal. The receptionist said we would find it down behind the Corn Exchange. We did find a canal, but it was the Aire and Calder Navigation.The picture below shows the last lock on that canal. The building on the right is the Royal Armouries Museum 

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In front of and to the right of the museum lies the Clarence Dock, shown in the picture below.

We were not quite sure where the Aire & Calder Navigation ended and the Leeds to Liverpool started    so we just followed the canal to the West.

The bridge in the background is Crown Point Bridge and it has a poignant memorial to a homeless woman beneath the bridge, facing the towpath. I've shown it below. 

The area beside the canal has undergone a major redevelopment recently and even sightseeing boats now operate on the canal.

There are smart new office blocks and central city flats boardering the canal..

The first lock on the Leeds to Liverpool canal is River Lock, its sign is shown below.

and this is a photograph of the actual lock.

The Leeds Basin separates River Lock from Office Lock. Office Lock is the second lock on the canal, and the place from where we will continue our walk  from tomorrow.

Leeds Basin.

Office Lock.

The Canal Office, shown above, is situated on a road bridge over the canal, that separates Office Lock from the Leeds Basin.

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IN MEMORIAM

The final picture below was taken in Leeds City Square. Two of the eight nymphs surrounding the square can be seen in the photograph. These statues were favourItes of my uncle Stanley.

Stanley, sadly now deceased, lived in Harehills, a suburb of Leeds. This picture is to thank  him for the many weekends he and auntie Edie came to Heckmondwike to take us out in their van. We didn't own a car.