Where is this and what type of vessel?

[Steilsteven]

[Iain_S]

The chap on the towpath has a rope over his shoulder, so an unpowered barge.

 

Could it be an Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal one (69' x 12'6") ?

[Bee]

Somewhere near Kendal?

[Mad Harold]

15 hours ago, Steilsteven said:

Back to the future?

A rope over the shoulder and pull,when we've all got electric boats and run out of leccy miles from a charging point.

[Pluto]

It does look like some of the boats used on the F&CC and Union Canal. I am pretty certain it is not a Lancaster boat, as all the images I have show them as having a square stern and a simple square rudder, nor do they have a raised cutwater on the stem. The photo from Summerlee Heritage shows a similar scow.

[zenataomm]

The bloke on the towpath got his braces snagged on a cleat as he passed on his way to work.

He spent the next mile passing and then being passed again and again.

[Steilsteven]

4 hours ago, Pluto said:

It does look like some of the boats used on the F&CC and Union Canal. I am pretty certain it is not a Lancaster boat, as all the images I have show them as having a square stern and a simple square rudder, nor do they have a raised cutwater on the stem. The photo from Summerlee Heritage shows a similar scow.

I think you're right, everything matches up more or less. Any idea of the location?

 

Keith

[Jerra]

7 hours ago, Bee said:

Somewhere near Kendal?

No the canal is too wide.

[Pluto]

20 hours ago, Steilsteven said:

I think you're right, everything matches up more or less. Any idea of the location?

 

Keith

I've never known me to be anything but right, honest! Waterways Journal 10 has an article about boats on the central Scottish waterways, with the caption for the photo I put up suggesting that the location was Provan Hall Colliery on the Monkland Canal. I don't know the Scottish canals well enough to be certain about your photo, but my feeling would be the Union Canal, though my rightness may be suspect in this case.

[Derek R.]

As Seamus Ennis once said (and was pronounced as often saying by his Son) - "I may be wrong but I very much doubt it". ?

[magnetman]

On 12/12/2020 at 19:46, Steilsteven said:

That high ground on the right looks ideal for a motorway 

 

Maybe here? 

 

https://goo.gl/maps/5hRcJ3tyoBUSKfR98

 

[Heartland]

I have this image in the RCHS Collection as 69295 Bow Hauling near Almond Aqueduct, Union Canal, G C W Wheeler took the photo and the date was 1952.

 

 

[Iain_S]

On 14/12/2020 at 16:03, magnetman said:

That high ground on the right looks ideal for a motorway 

 

Maybe here? 

 

https://goo.gl/maps/5hRcJ3tyoBUSKfR98

 

Strangely enough, that was the location that occurred to me. Almond Aqueduct round the corner, and M8 to the left. Need to do a recce to check the skyline, though.

[Derek R.]

You can 'walk' the towpath with Google maps, but much has changed since 1952 and I'm blessed if I can find a similar view. Canal is narrower, the hedgerow massive.

Could the image be transposed I wonder? Though approaching from the other side doesn't help.

Edited December 17, 2020 by Derek R.

[magnetman]

16 hours ago, Iain_S said:

Strangely enough, that was the location that occurred to me. Almond Aqueduct round the corner, and M8 to the left. Need to do a recce to check the skyline, though.

Towpath is on the wrong side for my original suggestion so how about here instead. At least the towpath is the right side. 

 

https://goo.gl/maps/baTtAcNCnbMSBuVCA

 

 

I've never been there was just using Google maps and thinking about the nice curve in the cut being a feature. 

 

 

[Derek R.]

Only trouble with that location is that the ground does not drop away on the right. It's level with the canal.

 

I think it is closer to the Cliftonhall Road aqueduct here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9238751,-3.4159731,3a,75y,67.03h,88.77t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5dYVA0t86UMTIEwG3IPYYA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

It's hard to see the ground dropping away due to the much more advanced tree and arborial growth and the canal does look so much narrower than the original.

Best I can come up with.

[Heartland]

The image in the  RCHS Collection

 

It is always helpful to get opinions as to mis captions, although this one appears correct.

 

 

 

Examples of this collection include

 

69293	1952		East end of Almond Aqueduct by water intake	G.C W. Wheeler
69294	1951		Dry Dock West end of Avon Aqueduct	G.C W Wheeler
69295	1952		Bow Hauling east of Almond Aqueduct	G.C W Wheeler
69296	1951		Old Entrance to 11 Locks at Falkirk	G.C W. Wheeler
69297	1951		Tunnel at Falkirk	G.C W. Wheeler
69298	1951		Approach to Falkirk Tunnel	G.C W. Wheeler

69304	1951		Swing Bridge at Redding near Polmont	G.C W. Wheeler
69305	1951		Canal at Sighthill	G.C W. Wheeler
69306	1951		Canal at Sighthill	G.C W. Wheeler

Edited December 18, 2020 by Heartland

[Derek R.]

Even better in sepia.