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The article had nine photos, of which two were credited to the author Paul Miles and the others were stock photos from the Alamy agency, cited as "Roger Goodwin/Alamy" or similar. As discussed above, the subeditors have amended the Alamy titles to make them less accurate, in canalling terms, compared with the photographers' submitted titles. Alamy claims "362,089,282 stock photos, 360° panoramic images, vectors and videos"

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Yes, Grauniad also bought this one from Alamy here. Alamy's caption was "This historic branch of the Leeds - Liverpool canal passes through the Lancashire countryside on its way to Tarleton, Lancashire." which was abbreviated by the subeditor to "The historic Leeds & Liverpool Canal at Tarleton, where a lock joins it to the Lancaster Canal" which loses something in the translation. In the context of the article, showing the wellie needed for the incoming tide would have been more fun ...

Yes, they bought the image from Alamy, here. Alamy say "Captions are provided by our contributors" which in this case was "Lock No.1. Glasson Branch, Lancaster to Kendal Canal, Galgate, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe." which the Grauniad abbreviated to "Lock No 1 of the Lancaster Canal at Galgate." and also didn't mention the photo was taken on 9Jun2011: canallers know that canal-scenes don't usually change much in a dozen years; maybe the sub-editor is a canaller ?? Geograph can do slightly better with a pic from 17Sep2018 © Copyright MatFascione and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

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