Where I am

[Heartland]

Another factory beside a canal in the Midlands

Any ideas for this 1970 view?

 

 

 

[David Mack]

[Captain Pegg]

Is that Lifford, Worcester & Birmingham canal?

 

ETA - I'll answer myself; no it isn't.

 

I thought it looked like it might the point where the original Birmingham & Gloucester line (better known these days as the Camp Hill line) crossed the W&B but the curvature and towpath are wrong for that.

 

So how about the same railway where it crosses the GU below Camp Hill top lock?

Edited November 9, 2023 by Captain Pegg

[magpie patrick]

On 31/10/2023 at 10:38, oboat said:

Battlbridge

 

 

Do you mean on the river Crouch? 

 

Genuine question as I had no idea those gates ever existed and the only other Battlebridge I know is on the Shannon and doesn't look like that!

[David Mack]

2 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

Is that Lifford, Worcester & Birmingham canal?

 

No, but it's closer to Lifford by rail than it is by canal.

[Captain Pegg]

1 minute ago, David Mack said:

 

No, but it's closer to Lifford by rail than it is by canal.

 

I've just added to my post and your clue makes me think I've got it this time

[David Mack]

2 hours ago, Captain Pegg said:

So how about the same railway where it crosses the GU below Camp Hill top lock?

That's the location of my Google Streetview shot.

 

1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:

the only other Battlebridge I know is on the Shannon and doesn't look like that!

Are you not familiar with the one behind Kings Cross Station?

Edited November 9, 2023 by David Mack

[Captain Pegg]

Just now, David Mack said:

That's the location of my Google Streetview shot.

 

In both @Heartland's original and your Streetview image the bottom of the offside tail wall of the lock is visible. A little clue I failed to spot initially.

 

So what was the factory?

[magpie patrick]

48 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

Are you not familiar with the one behind Kings Cross Station?

 I'd forgotten about that one - although I don't think there is a lock there? If the Regents Canal ever looks like Tacet's picture we have a big problem!

[Tacet]

3 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

 

Do you mean on the river Crouch? 

 

Genuine question as I had no idea those gates ever existed and the only other Battlebridge I know is on the Shannon and doesn't look like that!

Yes.  Oboat is correct and it's Battlebridge, Essex 

[J R ALSOP]

38 minutes ago, Tacet said:

Yes.  Oboat is correct and it's Battlebridge, Essex 

You have missed the "s" out of Battlesbridge.

[Heartland]

D Mack shows the location but does not identify it.

All other suggestions are off the mark.

The Location is Birmingham, Warwick & Birmingham Canal looking to lock 6. What makes this image of interest is it shows the former Hearl & Tonks factory, which was occupied by James Cycles also for a time. James made cycles and motorcycles at Greet later

The railway bridge is the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway Camp Hill Line, later Midland, LMS, BR and now used by some passenger services. There are plans for more passenger trains as three new stations are made.

By Lock 6 is Sampson Road Warehouses.

 

 

 

[Stroudwater1]

39 minutes ago, Heartland said:

D Mack shows the location but does not identify it.

All other suggestions are off the mark.

The Location is Birmingham, Warwick & Birmingham Canal looking to lock 6. What makes this image of interest is it shows the former Hearl & Tonks factory, which was occupied by James Cycles also for a time. James made cycles and motorcycles at Greet later

The railway bridge is the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway Camp Hill Line, later Midland, LMS, BR and now used by some passenger services. There are plans for more passenger trains as three new stations are made.

By Lock 6 is Sampson Road Warehouses.

 

 

 

Duh, only went down Camp Hill locks last week. Didn’t recognise it as the image didn’t have a Tesco container on it.

 

Goes to show things look different coming the other way (which we did 2 years ago….)  😂

 

[oboat]

On 09/11/2023 at 19:31, J R ALSOP said:

You have missed the "s" out of Battlesbridge.

My apologies for the missing "S". That said, I would like to know more about the area?

[Heartland]

And now another question. This view of 1955 shows a lock, lock house, a larger building and Bobby

 

Where am I and what happened to the larger structure?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

It looks like Wheaton Aston to me.

I remember the steps are to high for me to get off and I have to use the lock ladder

The hedge stands a fair bit higher now, if I remember rightly, obscuring the cottage a fair bit.

The large building is gone?, don’t know what happened to it.

 

 

 

Here’s a view from above the lock which shows the larger building looking derelict,

had there been a fire?

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Here’s a view, bottom right of course, of the larger building which is(was) two houses. 
Note the steps leading up from the field below. Fenced off now. 

[Heartland]

Yes beer obviously stimulates the little grey cells

 

It is Wheaton Aston Lock

 

The larger building is of interest as it was no doubt canal workers houses, but is this recorded anywhere?

 

Looking at the 1911 summary books, of the 4 lock cottages 1 was unoccupied

George Clay widower 66 was the canal agent evidently at the cottage beside the lock

Arthur Bird and his family, who was a Shropshire Union Bank tenter lived in one of the adjacent cottages and the other was the home of a gardener

 

 

Edited November 16, 2023 by Heartland

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I hope to pass there tomorrow,

I’ll try and take a photo from a similar angle to compare. 

Meanwhile in the same neck of the woods:

Easily recognisable but any history about it would be welcome.
I believe it’s one of the cases where the land owner said yes you can come through my land but you need to do it to my requirements. 

The balustrade I see is cast cement, is it an addition to the original design?

 

 

[Stroudwater1]

I believe it’s connected to Chillington Hall. It’s a lovely walk around a mile of straight now woodland. The bridge would have disrupted this avenue which was related to a grand entrance to the Hall. 
 

Im sure there’s more history, the whole bridge looks to have been built all at once rather than adding balustrades later. I think they are sandstone not concrete, looks similar with sand and aggregate in concrete. 
 

The hall is also worth looking round Im told.
 

A one hour walk further up is Boscobel House and oak tree where Charles 2nd is strongly alleged to have hidden after he fled from civil war and is part of the Monarchs way which crosses several canals including the W&B Stratford and Droitwich. It’s a long walk is that😂

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

1 hour ago, Stroudwater1 said:

m sure there’s more history, the whole bridge looks to have been built all at once rather than adding balustrades later. I think they are sandstone not concrete, looks similar with sand and aggregate in concrete.

Yes, I think your right, all put together at the same time,

 

but the rail and balusters are dead rough, I’m certain they’re cast,

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

3 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:

Monarchs way

 

yes it goes by Ryders Green locks too,

had Charles fled a century or so later he could have caught a boat 😎

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

On 15/11/2023 at 13:47, Heartland said:

 

[Heartland]

It would be of interest to see if anybody can identify this bridge over what what a navigation and the wharf was in the foreground

 

 

[Heartland]

This is the bridge over the Severn at Llandrinio in the background are the Brieddon Hills and Rodneys Pillar

There was a picture/ painting which shows a barge on the Severn on its way to Pool Quay