Where I am

[Kiwidad]

Ok, to return the favour.

this is one Matty40s missed in the third antique shop 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Have you got a date for that?

 

the little Venice one

Edited March 2, 2023 by Goliath

[magnetman]

River Ock junction Abingdon?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

3 minutes ago, Kiwidad said:

Ok, to return the favour.

this is one Matty40s missed in the third antique shop 

Somewhere on the Thames?

😃

where 🤷‍♀️

[matty40s]

4 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Have you got a date for that?

 

the little Venice one

Between 1816 and 20

[magnetman]

Regents canal dock?

5 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Somewhere on the Thames?

😃

where 🤷‍♀️

To be more accurate than my above post I think it is actually the Wilts and Berks junction which is slightly downstream of the Ock. 

 

Abingdon alms houses and church in the background .

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

42 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Regents canal dock?

 Now known as Limehouse Basin?

[Derek R.]

The flag does sort of give it away.

[magnetman]

I didn't notice the flag. 

It is the vertical wooden piles with gaps below the side of the dock which made me think Limehouse. 

[Heartland]

Things move on and yes it seems easy to identify the junction with the Thames & Severn and the River Thames.

As to the Bloomfield Image, I have yet to find a date when the bridge was removed at the junction, but the stop removal was later

Another question to be resolved is how many construction shafts for the Great Coseley Tunnel, there were at least two for the uncompleted original narrow tunnel. The term "Great" was used by the contemporary newspapers

And now the thread has moved on to the Regents Canal etc and other parts of the Thames 

 

And now another image- not a steam excavator, but a steam locomotive crossing a skew bridge over t cut

 

 

Edited March 3, 2023 by Heartland

[Heartland]

Regarding Bloomfield Cast Iron Bridge there is an image In Dudley Archives dated c 1965 which might indicate a period of removal as well as the stanking off of the Loop.

 

 

Edited March 3, 2023 by Heartland

[Kiwidad]

20 hours ago, Goliath said:

Somewhere on the Thames?

😃

where 🤷‍♀️

Nope, it’s Chichester Cathedral in the background 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

9 hours ago, Heartland said:

Things move on and yes it seems easy to identify the junction with the Thames & Severn and the River Thames.

As to the Bloomfield Image, I have yet to find a date when the bridge was removed at the junction, but the stop removal was later

Another question to be resolved is how many construction shafts for the Great Coseley Tunnel, there were at least two for the uncompleted original narrow tunnel. The term "Great" was used by the contemporary newspapers

And now the thread has moved on to the Regents Canal etc and other parts of the Thames 

 

And now another image- not a steam excavator, but a steam locomotive crossing a skew bridge over t cut

 

 

we on the Staff and Worcester here…?

or we back on the BCN?

 

or neither ? 

[magnetman]

9 hours ago, Heartland said:

 

 

I want this. 

51 minutes ago, Kiwidad said:

Nope, it’s Chichester Cathedral in the background 

Really? 

 

Any more modern images to confirm this? 

 

I had it down as Abingdon Like this

 

You can even see the bridge over the River Ock confluence and the artist has added white bits to indicate there is some water about. 

[Kiwidad]

14 minutes ago, magnetman said:

I want this. 

Really? 

 

Any more modern images to confirm this? 

 

I had it down as Abingdon Like this

 

You can even see the bridge over the River Ock confluence and the artist has added white bits to indicate there is some water about. 

It is a Stuart Lloyd painting entitled: A barge on the Chichester ship canal

[magnetman]

4 minutes ago, Kiwidad said:

It is a Stuart Lloyd painting entitled: A barge on the Chichester ship canal

That is interesting as it doesn''t half look like Abingdon and a narrow boat. 

[Kiwidad]

19 minutes ago, magnetman said:

That is interesting as it doesn''t half look like Abingdon and a narrow boat. 

It has me confused as well

[Captain Pegg]

10 hours ago, Heartland said:

Things move on and yes it seems easy to identify the junction with the Thames & Severn and the River Thames.

As to the Bloomfield Image, I have yet to find a date when the bridge was removed at the junction, but the stop removal was later

Another question to be resolved is how many construction shafts for the Great Coseley Tunnel, there were at least two for the uncompleted original narrow tunnel. The term "Great" was used by the contemporary newspapers

And now the thread has moved on to the Regents Canal etc and other parts of the Thames 

 

And now another image- not a steam excavator, but a steam locomotive crossing a skew bridge over t cut

 

 

 

 

Nutbrook Canal?

[David Mack]

3 hours ago, Heartland said:

Regarding Bloomfield Cast Iron Bridge there is an image In Dudley Archives dated c 1965 which might indicate a period of removal as well as the stanking off of the Loop.

 

 

Interesting. I discovered the BCN just at the tail end of the installation of natural gas pipelines along the towpaths. I don't know if there is a pipeline on this section of the main line, but I understand a number of redundant arms, basins and towpath bridges were removed at that time to facilitate the installation of the pipe (and presumably to reduce BW's maintenance costs). So I wonder if that is the reason this one went.

[Heartland]

The natural gas came to the Midlands a little later, but the infrastructure was perhaps a little earlier, so it is a thought to consider 

Regarding the loco on the bridge, a 78xxx BR Standard, think Cotswold Canals 

As to the Stuart Lloyd Painting was it Walter Stuartt Lloyd ? 

When sold in 2014 this painting was titled differently in french basically meaning moored barges. Has the latest seller of this piece of artwork made his own interpretation of the location?

Edited March 4, 2023 by Heartland

[Kiwidad]

51 minutes ago, Heartland said:

The natural gas came to the Midlands a little later, but the infrastructure was perhaps a little earlier, so it is a thought to consider 

Regarding the loco on the bridge, a 78xxx BR Standard, think Cotswold Canals 

As to the Stuart Lloyd Painting was it Walter Stuartt Lloyd ? 

When sold in 2014 this painting was titled differently in french basically meaning moored barges. Has the latest seller of this piece of artwork made his own interpretation of the location?

Walter Stuart Lloyd yes. There are a number of prints, all titled as I said. But hey, I could be wrong. Here is another, titled ‘Gloucester’

 

[matty40s]

17 hours ago, Kiwidad said:

It is a Stuart Lloyd painting entitled: A barge on the Chichester ship canal

Chichester cathedral(nowhere near river ,ship canal basin low banks)..

 

St Mary's Church Abingdon..

[magnetman]

In the picture I think is Abingdon there is a wall which looks like the entrance to a disused canal. 

 

This is exactly where the Wilts and Berks canal would have joined the Thames. Now it is just piling and a road goes past close to the River. 

 

Closed on 1914 apparently. It was a narrow canal. 

I have not wandered around there but apparently there are some remains of the first lock and also some canal related buildings. 

 

Looks like the entrance to a dismantled and filled in lock. There may even be a quoin cutout in the stonework I think. 

 

 

Odd that there isn't the other half. Artistic license perhaps?

[Captain Pegg]

9 hours ago, Heartland said:

 

Regarding the loco on the bridge, a 78xxx BR Standard, think Cotswold Canals 

 

 

A low axle weight loco on a bridge that looks like it needs such. So not a major line and in any case it appears to be single track. However the condition and livery of the loco suggests 1960s and most of the Cotswold canals were out of use and water by then.

 

So my guess is the Stroudwater where it is crossed by the MR's Stonehouse to Nailsworth branch near Ryeford. Loco is BR Std 2MT no. 78004 and the photo was taken between 7/64 and 11/65.

 

 

Edited March 4, 2023 by Captain Pegg

[jeannette smith harrison]

On 23/06/2022 at 15:12, Heartland said:

Wow, such detail

It is remarkable the depth of knowledge that exists out there

This photographer who died a few ago went on several trips with CACTUS, which has been mentioned in other threads

On some images Charlie Atkins seem to have had two water cans, how often did that happen ?

 

Just now, jeannette smith harrison said:

 

Heartland 2x even 3x cans were common for boaters with large family,s as they needed enough water to get from water point to waterpoint photo's are from my family albums sorry apart from the Longdon ones some where family photo's but have been used in books so have not given credit as to not upset anyone