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13 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2005

 

Coventry Canal between Br25/26

 

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In the fifteen years between the pictures, the insulator on the left on the second row from the top has been lost.

 

How observant! It may not make much difference, as there are no visible wires. Does the pole do anything? Is it Grade 2 listed? It looks like something off the cover of a 1960s country blues L.P. 

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1 hour ago, buccaneer66 said:

Today Orford Harbour

 

 

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Brings back good memories. Thanks for posting.

We stayed in a friends  little cottage just up from the Quay for 10days about 10 years ago.

The brother of the owner owned the trip boat for the harbour cruise. Possibly the boat lying moored stern on, closest in the top photo, and his wife owned the waterfront tea rooms in the next photo down. 

Nice spot.

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2016. The old aqueduct at Minden on the Mitteland Kanal. The building on the left is the pump house, which pumped water from the Weser up to the canal. Water for this was stored in the Eder Dam, above Cassel, and which was destroyed by the Dam Busters. The aqueduct was also badly damaged during the war, with the German army blowing it up during their retreat in 1945. It was rebuilt around the time in 1946/7 when Ben Earle Walls, who had been involved with his family carrying business and then Canal Transport Ltd on the L&LC during the war, was in charge of bringing German waterways in the British Sector and the Rhine back into commercial use. The second RAF post-war reconnaissance photo shows the destroyed aqueduct, and comes from his collection of photos.

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B E Walls 076, Minden aerial after aqueduct bombed.jpg

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