Chris Lowe

Are they treating the invisible man?

The good old internet comes up with. Albion, the earliest-known name for the island of Britain. It was used by ancient Greek geographers from the 4th century bc and even earlier, who distinguished “Albion” from Ierne (Ireland) and from smaller members of the British Isles. The Greeks and Romans probably received the name from the Gauls or the Celts. Albion incorporated as a village in 1855 and as a city in 1885. Albion is an alternative name for the island of Great Britain. It is sometimes used poetically to refer to the island, but has fallen out of common use in English. ... These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland. Merlin. Albion is a landmass that constitutes the island currently known as Great Britain. Once, the land of Albion was united in an age of peace, during which all of its inhabitants followed the Old Religion. Now there are many kingdoms within Albion, between which peace is exceedingly rare. And the football reference. The word Albion was originally used to mean Britain, then only for parts of Britain with white cliffs. The name was first applied to a football team by Brighton and Hove as there are white cliffs in Dover. The name was later copied by other teams, eg. West Bromwich

Nice one Peter

I've only seen a drawing of it

There even bits left near Kingsland and that part was never finished.

Thanks that saves me scanning it, I have a reprint of it.

In Captain Ahabs Watery Tails Andy Tidy mentions a Dunkirk forge in the area.

I have a copy of Thomas Dadford's survey map of 1789 that was republished by Richard Dean, it does show where locks, bridges, tunnels and aqueducts where located even on the sections that where never finished, but the scale is very small does anyone have a larger scale route map so that I can accurately add features to my maps?

Yes there aren't any photos directly on the junction at Britain From Above.

Can we have only the funny memes and jokes posted here please, this thread is going off course in a bad direction.

I can't remember if my first hire was from Blakes or Hoseasons but I do remember it cost me £25 for a week from a small base in Burton, the rest of the cost was covered by a voucher cut from the Daily Mirror.

Nice one I can remember hiring a comanche, have you got the early Hoseasons brochures as well?

Odd they are displaying for me, but here is where you can look https://boroughphotos.org/wandsworth/category/place/wandle/

Wandle Lock Barges on the River Wandle c1915 River Wandle- C1956 Canal dock gates by Feathers Wharf River Wandle- C1956 Canal dock being filled in This and the rest of the Wandle images can be found here https://boroughphotos.org/wandsworth/category/place/wandle/

A picture and description of the entrance weir here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3810484

You don't fancy the Peter Wyngarde look then?

Not a canal but nice to look at, Castle beach Tenby which is normally full of trip boats.

This older map marks the entrance lock to the adjacent canal, but no navigation works are obvious on the river itself.