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The fairly recent launch of CRT's digital archive had made a few more photos of Python publicly available. BUT - as has been discussed elsewhere the archive suffers from some incorrect captioning. Two of the photos of Python that are now available online are ones that I paid for copies of only last year but by searching the archive with the word "Python" it shows a total of six photos. It is very clear to me that at least three of those photos have an incorrect caption. I would like to report the problem to the archives department but I felt that it would be helpful if I could offer them correct information for the images rather than just tell them they are wrong. That is where I thought some of you may be able to help. The first image is this one: Now that looks nothing like Autherley Junction to me and I can't see any boats there either. Does anyone recognise where it is? The next one is a huge dissapointment to me Picture number 2: Now as far as I am concerned that is not Autherley Junction as the little toll? house there is very distinctive and the cottage sits much further back from the lock. I sincerely wish we could see a nice stern view because we might have a better chance of identifying the motor in the picture. So where might this be? Picture number 3: The thing that strikes me about this caption is that the detail in it makes me wonder if there is another photo somewhere which should have this caption applied. It is such a detailed description after all. IDoes anyone have any idea where this photo might be? Photo number 4: Now this one is such a wonderful photo I really, really want it to be of Python! The way the embankment rises from the towpath and the slight curve means this could well have been taken from bridge 35. There are now houses (mostly bungalows) built along the offside but my memory of them is that the age of them means they would be unlikely to have been there in 1952. What about the boats? Can one of you experts take a good look and tell me if there is any reason that can't be Python? One thing that is nagging away at me if that all the captions of these images refer to Python being paired with "Capella" On the details that Pete Harrison gave me for Python there was no mention of Python being paired with Capella. Of course with so much detail being very obviously wrong with the captions it does not really mean a thing and none of these images give us a good view of the butty for identification but as I assume the captions have come from somewhere rather than being made up in the head of an over zealous archivist (perhaps written on the back of an original picture and simply mis-matched in the archives) Perhaps once upon a time Python was paired with Capella. Does anyone know if this could be possible? Pete Harrison's archive lists Python being paired with Dawley in 1952 This image is dated 1950 Clearly it shows Python (I can read the cabin side!) From the records I have she would have been paired with Romford that year. Do any of you historians have any reason to think that is not Romford?