Horace42 Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 The place in this pic from cover of Waterways World email news letter looks familiar, I seem to recognise it, but can't quite place it. Any ideas please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) Well they look like Oxfordshire Narrowboats hire boats, and it's clearly not the Oxford Canal. I've never been there, but I believe they have (or had?) another base at Bradford on Avon. So my best guess is Bradford on Avon? EDIT: Has the image been reversed, though? This from CRT looks like the same place, but the other way around! Edited February 22, 2019 by alan_fincher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris G Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 Bradford on Avon on the K&A, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 24 minutes ago, Horace42 said: The place in this pic from cover of Waterways World email news letter looks familiar, I seem to recognise it, but can't quite place it. Any ideas please? It's Bradford On Avon on The Kennett & Avon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 29 minutes ago, alan_fincher said: Well they look like Oxfordshire Narrowboats hire boats, and it's clearly not the Oxford Canal. I've never been there, but I believe they have (or had?) another base at Bradford on Avon. So my best guess is Bradford on Avon? EDIT: Has the image been reversed, though? This from CRT looks like the same place, but the other way around! Geograph has the same orientation as CRT. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624522 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pegg Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) It's definitely Bradford. I once turned a 66' long boat in that gap under the watchful eye of the chap from Oxfordshire narrowboats. I wasn't on one of his boats. JP Edited February 22, 2019 by Captain Pegg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty40s Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) the real world shows it this way round too.. Edited February 22, 2019 by matty40s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebotco Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 I agree its Bradford. But its not from modern times. And its a fairly naff photo too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 29 minutes ago, Rebotco said: I agree its Bradford. But its not from modern times. And its a fairly naff photo too! It's from back in the day when Bradford on Avon was the other way around - colour photography was still in its infancy then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 The photo was used by the hire company to prove that on an "out and back" trip places really do look different on the way back. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark99 Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 Its Avon upon Bradford. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 3 hours ago, David Mack said: Geograph has the same orientation as CRT. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3624522 I'm somewhat surprised that the boat in the foreground has made it all the way from the GU to Bradford on Avon. It certainly never went very far when it was resident in Hertfordshire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrianh Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 This is Bradford on Avon , picture taken from the eating area at the pub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebotco Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 2 hours ago, adrianh said: This is Bradford on Avon , picture taken from the eating area at the pub. I don't think so. Looking at the position of the water point, It appears to be taken from just above the top lock gate. Not this century though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pegg Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, Rebotco said: I don't think so. Looking at the position of the water point, It appears to be taken from just above the top lock gate. Not this century though! He was maybe confused by the picture being printed the wrong way round. What makes you sure it's 20 years or so old? JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebotco Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 6 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said: What makes you sure it's 20 years or so old? JP Cos there's a mooring space! ? More seriously, there appears to be vegetation on the far right hand side. No evidence of the toilet block having been built. And what looks like a footbridge in the far distance. The photo is too poor to see the detail properly though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dixi188 Posted February 22, 2019 Report Share Posted February 22, 2019 WW have used old photo's before. About 10 years ago the front cover had a photo of my sister and brother in law's boat (Opus V) with her at the helm and that was at least 15 years after it was sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horace42 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2019 20 hours ago, Sea Dog said: It's from back in the day when Bradford on Avon was the other way around - colour photography was still in its infancy then. Thanks. I will settle for Bradford ..... but hasn't colour photography always been around - pictures we have of long ago are black and white because everything in the world was black and white.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horace42 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2019 Thanks everybody! I will settle for Bradford...I have not been there by boat - must be a trick of memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted February 23, 2019 Report Share Posted February 23, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, Horace42 said: Thanks. I will settle for Bradford ..... but hasn't colour photography always been around - pictures we have of long ago are black and white because everything in the world was black and white.... You may have a point there. Some folk still seem to be black and white even now! Edited February 23, 2019 by Sea Dog Sp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Booth Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 David Hemmings the actor used to sit on the lock gate watching the boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen-in-Wellies Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 20 hours ago, Horace42 said: Thanks. I will settle for Bradford ..... but hasn't colour photography always been around - pictures we have of long ago are black and white because everything in the world was black and white.... Old photos are the only thing that accurately record the world when it was black and white. Paintings were in black and white too of course, but they turned colour along with almost everything else. What with entire towns being turned round backwards, the past could be very confusing. There were shades of grey back then too, but no one is interested in them any more. Bradford on Avon turned colour quiet early on, but Bradford in Yorkshire only got colour three years ago. Jen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Schweizer Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 (edited) I used to work the K&A Trust trip boat at Bradford on Avon, and can confirm that the WW photo is definitely a reversed photo of the area above Bradford on Avon Lock. Here is the photo showing correct orientation, together with one of mine taken from the same position when I was working there. To settle the date of the photo, the second photo was taken 20 years ago and the boat moored immediately above the lock is the trip boat I used to work. The WW photo is much later, after the K&A Trust vacated the Wharf building and Oxfordshire Narrowboats took over something like ten years ago. Edited February 24, 2019 by David Schweizer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebotco Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, David Schweizer said: I used to work the K&A Trust trip boat at Bradford on Avon, and can confirm that the WW photo is definitely a reversed photo of the area above Bradford on Avon Lock. Here is the photo showing correct orientation, together with one of mine taken from the same position when I was working there. To settle the date of the photo, the second photo was taken 20 years ago and the boat moored immediately above the lock is the trip boat I used to work. The WW photo is much later, after the K&A Trust vacated the Wharf building and Oxfordshire Narrowboats took over something like ten years ago. Yep. That is absolutely right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 33 minutes ago, David Schweizer said: How did you reverse the lettering on the Motor? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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