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  1. Final mystery solved (virtually certain!). The pub is the Britannia on Tewkesbury High Street. Turning south once through the Severn/Avon lock and mooring up, it could be the nearest pub (sounds like that crew's norm). Here's a photo from a current website. The similarities are distinct despite some alterations. Thanks to everyone that contributed to my query and a very Merry Christmas Bob
  2. 'Fraid Evesham is the only one I can remember. Cheers Bob
  3. Using only logic/guesswork, certainly not memory, and assuming the lock is Pershore (in good daylight) , it would be unlikely we would have moored up early for the evening there especially as the one place I do recall mooring is Evesham - not too far distant. Thanks for the thought.
  4. I don't recall too many difficulties but there may have been reasons for that:- - We were well crewed - 8 in all. And, we were 'Equal Opportunites' - the five women took their turn at all tasks. ( The previous year I crewed for a couple of married couples on the Cheshire Ring - the husbands refused to allow their wives to steer!! I soon sorted that but that is a totally different story) - Two of us had RN training which had included 'How to use the crew to get your warship off a mud/sand bank' - we did have to use the technique once. - Ignorance was bliss Thanks again everyone Bob
  5. Thanks again everyone. I looked into the Pershore changes over the 40+ years and I'd now vote for Pershore but it seems the lock shape from my era had been modified by 2008 when the image below (Youtube: screenshot of time lapse video) was taken. The only other photo evidence I found dates from 2010. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1929842 I'll check out the Fleur de Lys asap Regards Bob
  6. Sorry John, I totally missed the nuance - I hadn't even realised the Avon continued as it does. Regards Bob
  7. Abbey Mill it is! https://millsarchive.org/explore/mills/entry/5051/abbey-mill-tewkesbury I just didn't think to 'google map' below the Severn Junction. Thanks for that. As far as the lock is concerned, I have 'google mapped' the length of the river and can't spot a lock where the river bends to stbd and there are boats moored ahead. It may have been rebuilt? On this rainy November night, I'll do some more searching. The pub hasn't raised any suggestions so far - Iguess I'll have to visit every one on the route next Spring? Regards Bob
  8. Thanks for all your thoughts so far. I can help with Mike's interest in the right of the bottom photo - see below. It has since occurred to me that photo 3 may be to the right of that. I am confident that the photos are from the (then) Avon Ring because of the various crew members in the photos (unique to that trip). It may be that the NW part of the ring had different options at that time. My 1inch sketch map by Douglas Smith (June 1974) only shows Birmingham to Worcester via T'bigge - and a dotted (under restoration) route via Droitwich. My Nicholson's (1974?) offers only an alternative to rejoin the Severn way north of Stourport. Regards Bob
  9. Dear All, This is my first posting so please be gentle with me if I am asking a no-no or in the wrong place. After many years on the briny, I have been considering returning to the canals. I dug out some old photos of my last canal trip which was around the 'Avon Ring' in September 1977. (It may have a different routing nowadays). We started at Stratford and passed the Edstone viaduct, stopped at the Fleur de Lys (Lowsonford?) and Gas St., Birmingham. Can anyone identify the locations in the following photos ? (The old world pub will probably have been 'upgraded' by now!) Thanks in advance Bob
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