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May be this lock then and the railway bridge
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The image is Waterways Archives CRT which states to be by Navigation Bridge Coventry Canal. The main works on the offside were the Edgewick Works, which had a extensive canal frontage. So is the caption correct?
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Laurence did quote some identities for those at Keays Yard and on the town arm so I wonder if anybody did record them.
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The Coventry Canal image is said to be 1970's may be somebody has the tools to work out this Navigation location.
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Alan has the answer for Magdeburg
As to Mikes question there were early canals in France, and elsewhere, but some sort of clue might assist.
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I would have thought that locks predated photography
So an alternative here is a modern structure to test the grey cells
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Staying with the Coventry Canal
Where and what is this location
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They do that don't they!
Bat out of Hell- a demon cricketer ?
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Yes it is Glascote Basin, which has links with Samuel Barlow
The map for 1901 is perhaps a little sharper.
The canal had a few basins here and the triangular basin was the longest. There was a tramway that linked with Glascote and Amington Collieries and sidings of the Midland Railway. The track beside the triangular basin seems to be an interchange line. Glascote Colliery was owned by the Glascote Colliery Co which belonged to the ironmaster family, Firmstone.
Much of the Midland Railway sidings were laid in the 1880's. Further south below the locks was the Kettlebrook Colliery Basin and a narrow gauge railway owned by the Dumolos used a Henry Hughes built locomotive for haulage/
The triangular basin is associated with the carrier Samuel Barlow, but he could also have used the Dumolo basin.
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Yus that saves me making the clue about happy coats to keep out the rain. Well done
But when the flooding in British Rivers is concerned, they look slight to what happens in America!
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It is part of a post card which my late Uncle Harold collected and he was killed in a tank battle in World War 2
It is a river and this image of same river is shown passing through a flooded Manchester, but not the one in this country
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Well done again
Norbury Junction and the flight of locks leading down to Newport
The view is taken from under the bridge, and another view under a different bridge
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Another location which some might know on a canal created through the genius of Thomas Telford
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Somewhere in the United States where it clearly rains. Could this be another type of house boat?
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Oh yes Shirley Aqueduct
This 1903 map view shows the aqueduct
A little further north the canal seems to have had a run off following a boundary that went in a straight line to a mill pool for a flour mill/
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Lock 1 and 9 at the Delph are on the original line the original 8 has been in filled.
As to Simkiss, yes they was the now closed local brewery
And now a West Midland waterway feature
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Yes it is on the original line of the Dudley Canal when there were 9 locks and as Thomas Dadford was the engineer there were long pounds and a short distance between some locks. The tithe map shows the original and Ian Langford in 1979 shows where the two cottages are in relation to the diverted canal. Malthouse Stables were a later addition post 1900 in fact and were seemingly part of the joint Shropshire Union/ BCN engineering establishment controlled by G R Jebb.
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The cottage number 151 should have helped with this one and may be Goliath has some idea where this is and there is a nearby brewery, In fact in times gone by one road had a brewery at both ends. One brewed straw coloured beer and the other brewed darker beer. Sadly the one sold out to a group that closed many real ale pubs and breweries and even shut their own brewery, such was the destiny of the British brewery industry.
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The warehouse view was at the end of the Lydney Canal and the buildings behind are still there. There are new units there now. Neat this place was the original navigation - Lydney Pill- came up from the Severn and formed a means of transfer to Pidcock & Co Canal
Another query then-------
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Mill Pond or Reservoir? A mill pond provided water for the mill. Having both names given raises the question as to what the reservoir served.
If it supplied the mill then why call it a reservoir. At heart of this question is a possibility that the reservoir was a compensation reservoir like those on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal protecting water supplies to the mills on the Ivel.
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As to the Ivel Navigation, this is a waterway that does perhaps deserve more attention. Clifton Lock was placed on the extension canal to Shefford and there was a plan to link Bedford and Shefford with the Grand Junction Canal, although this link was not made.
Clifton Lock in 1882:
Clifton Lock was the penultimate lock with Shefford being the last. The navigation extended to a wharf at Shefford and this map shows a reservoir which seemingly supplied the canal section.
And now another image to ponder on. This shows a warehouse by a basin, which I gather has now gone. This is a 1990's view.
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It would be of value to know more. The RCHS visit was based in Fort William and involved visits to railways and waterways. Not sure if Ian Moss attended this one though.
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Well that must be a record for working out a location. It was Bradley & Fosters ironworks and J U Raistrick did build "locomotives" there at one of the earliest factories for engines used on the railways. I hesitate to use the term "Locomotive" as the type of engine made at Stourbridge is best described as a travelling engine. This was a term used in the north east of England to distinguish the railway engine from the stationary engine. The engines made commonly had cylinders on top of the boiler which drove through a system of rods to the wheels. The Stephenson's built "Lancashire Witch" may be first described as a true locomotive where the cylinder had a direct drive to the wheels. The Stockton & Darlington "Locomotion". for which there will be renewed interest in 2025 is best described to be of the Travelling Engine Type. Foster and Raistrick built the Stourbridge Lion and Agenoria at Stourbridge. J U Raistrick partnership at Stourbridge was relatively brief as he went on to be a successful railway engineer involved in railway construction.
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Returning to the main thread, the advertisement "Your Canal Needs You" is still on the notice board.
Some interesting comments, but will it engender a helpful response ?
The mire that has enveloped Birmingham Council is a separate subject tied up with many factors, one being equal pay where the meaning of equality has a wide interpretation and no doubt that discussion belongs in the part of the forum dedicated to politics!
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You mean this bridge?