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Chris Lowe

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1 hour ago, buccaneer66 said:

While mapping the Middlewhich branch I came across this view of Stanthorne aqueduct on Bing maps, the current Google view shows it in water.

Is this current work or an old view?

 

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It is from the 2018 breach. You can see the stranded narrowboat that was very lucky not to get swept away. The Google view may be from either before, or after 2018, with it in water.

 

 

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14 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

I thought it was probably an old aerial, but interesting that they actually caught it

The mapping services catch all sorts of events, like the famous Google Streetview huge flying pliers in West Bromwich in 2010.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2010/03/18/mystery-of-the-giant-floating-pliers/

 

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12 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

Yes I've spotted a few oddities while mapping, this is near Welford on the old OS Maps.

 

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Maybe a waggish landowner decided to plant those trees to celebrate something, or the mapmaker put them in as a hidden-in-plain-sight map/copyright identifier...

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