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On this day in 1958 ...

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the plaque commemorates the beaching of  the 25ton Smack  Mary  built by Hugհ Eddy Stephens at Devoran in 1875.  The Friends of Purton website doesn't mention Mary.

 

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and the remains are in the Sharpness Barge Arm (pictures 15Jun2008 and 13Aug2018)

 

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1 hour ago, PD1964 said:

@ditchcrawler what’s with the fish trap? Do you know what they’re after?

No idea, it may have been there for years, At a guess I would say Eels as that is all I think it could be. I have never seen the water so low, just happened to have driven over for the day, nothing planned. The slipway further up the ramp was clear if the water.

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On 27/01/2022 at 21:47, oboat said:

I do like the old Bridge No's and designs.
I love the No's on the Witham Navigable Drains & feel it worth replacing the missing ones.
They are as important as Mile Posts. 

I have yet to work out the font, any suggestions ???

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I don't think there will be a font as such. Whoever made the patterns for the numbers probably just carved them himself to the size needed.  There is not much available 'off the shelf' . If you wanted to replicate them a big lump of clay pressed on to the plate would give a pretty good impression and then with plaster/ wax/ filler or  whatever you prefer a copy can be made and cast in lead or aluminium and then used any number of times,  Chunky old plate though, probably made by a local foundry and I expect those numbers are to be found on milestones and bits of surviving agricultural ironwork in the area. 

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2 hours ago, Bee said:

I don't think there will be a font as such. Whoever made the patterns for the numbers probably just carved them himself to the size needed.  There is not much available 'off the shelf' . If you wanted to replicate them a big lump of clay pressed on to the plate would give a pretty good impression and then with plaster/ wax/ filler or  whatever you prefer a copy can be made and cast in lead or aluminium and then used any number of times,  Chunky old plate though, probably made by a local foundry and I expect those numbers are to be found on milestones and bits of surviving agricultural ironwork in the area. 

I was thinking it could have been the foundry at the end of the New Bolingbroke Arm?
 

Anybody know where the remainder of the series are? I seem to recall a No5 is on the Hobhole Drain.

 

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