Where I am

[Heartland]

Pluto is on form again

And yes Preston Brook was easy for him

How about this Christmas Puzzle

 

 

 

 

[David Mack]

BCN HQ building on Paradise Street?

[Rob-M]

55 minutes ago, David Mack said:

BCN HQ building on Paradise Street?

That's what Capt Ahab has a slightly larger version of the image labelled.

[Heartland]

Oh yes well done, the building closed in 1912

 

 

 

 

 

A Christmas question

for those who follow canals and railways

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I think we’re looking at the Stephenson Lifting Bridge, built across the Leicester Navigation

 

Seems to have had an interesting past,

Twice dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere 

 

link: http://www.nigeltout.com/html/the-stephenson-lifting-bridge.html

Reading on it appears the components of the bridge were moved more than twice,

the bridge is now being restored are at the Mountsorrel and Rothley Community Heritage Centre

[junior]

On 20/12/2024 at 14:15, Heartland said:

Inferior and Superior Aqueducts perhaps Mike can explain and how rare was that term

 

And now north of a junction between two canals where craft of different dimensions served and was important in the chain of canal conveyance.

 

 

 

I take it that is the area now called 'waterside' in PB, just south of the A56 bridge?

[Heartland]

I see 5239 is all fired up and is right with this answer. The Leicester & Swannington Railway lift bridge in 1965 from Waterways Archive Collection as was the Preston Brook image

 

The ex GWR loco is now called Goliath i see

 

 

[Pluto]

Regarding lift bridges, I was sorting through my collection, prior to moving, and came across this one of me raising the lift bridge at the Black Country Museum for the first time after re-erection.

[springy]

That must have been hard work getting the handle over the top of the swing standing at that height, its hard enough now that the ground level has been raised.

 

How about this one (photo of a photo in a pub)

 

 

springy

 

[Stroudwater1]

On 18/09/2024 at 14:52, Heartland said:

This image is of a lock house

 

Any idea where, this being a canal that took time to finish

 

Walked up from the outskirts of Newent today. It’s a nice walk. Some of the lock chambers look quite decent pounds are in water and a reasonable amount elsewhere is in reed. The house has been restored in the fairly recent past. The original inscription is missing but there’s a plaque instead. 
 

 

On 23/09/2024 at 13:22, Heartland said:

No

 

It is from a RCHS Gardiner collection print

The following is a few prints along

 

It will be nice to see the restoration get this far although progress is slow

 

 

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

On 30/12/2024 at 17:43, springy said:

That must have been hard work getting the handle over the top of the swing standing at that height, its hard enough now that the ground level has been raised.

 

How about this one (photo of a photo in a pub)

 

 

springy

 

always willing to take a wild guess to bump this back up:

are we to work this out by identifying the type of boat in the photo? 

Is it one of them longer boats they used on the Wyrley and Essington Canal?

 

Certainly looks like I think a BCN boat should look like with the square/flat sides and the style of rubbing strakes 🤷‍♀️ 

 

 

[springy]

That was my thought too, the boat has what seems to be the right proportions for a 'hampton boat, the straight canal would suggest the cannock extension rather than the curly wyrley itself, and the pub is in Hednesford not far from the location of the colliery basin. Though to be honest I don't actually know.

 

springy

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I weren't too far away then. 😃
 

What do you reckon the pointy thing is?

something that converts to block and tackle?

 

[billh]

8 hours ago, 5239 said:

I weren't too far away then. 😃
 

What do you reckon the pointy thing is?

something that converts to block and tackle?

 

Pointy thing  is a towing mast. Roped to a cross plank on the side nearest  the towpath to give a slightly better line of pull for the horse. Obviously changed sides to suit the towpath. The mast was a solid piece, not the more common box type with a sliding inner to be height adjustable and had a solid pin to take the rope instead of the pivoted luby.

[Heartland]

Springys image is on the BCN

 

And in books may be 5239 might find it

 

As to another image of the BCN where might this be.

 

 

 

And specially for 5239 another GOLIATH this time an industrial steam loco built in 1928

 

Edited January 4 by Heartland

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

couldn’t find the image in my small collection of books,

but did find a good photo of horse pulling a boat by the mast as described,

and I’ve no idea about the next images. 
 

meanwhile, which lock has these ‘cut outs’?

and why?

I can’t recollect seeing stone cut like this before. 
there’s three cuts, one either end of the lock and one kind of central. 

Edited January 6 by 5239

[Heartland]

The pub image was of a post card image entitled the Canal at Hednesford and yes it appears to be a Hampton Boat and several people in the past have suggested that including the late Lawrence Hogg

 

As to the next BCN image this was another post card image for the canal at the Pleck (Walsall Canal) and near the Tube Works there. No body could get that one it would seem

 

 

And now another postcard for the BCN this time a coloured version

Any ideas of the location and who owned the ironworks. That works was owned by a family of ironmasters that became a limited company in an expensive deal involving a Manchester firm. This family was once associated with the engineer Wiliam James in the early part of the nineteenth century and later helped the establishment of a firm of canal carriers.

 

 

 

Edited January 11 by Heartland

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Still looking but I’ve come up with Fellows at Bilston?

 

Edited January 12 by 5239

[Heartland]

Not Fellows and in what respect. James Fellows senior started canal carrying for an ironmaster which is on the right track, but he was at Tipton

 

[Chris M Jones]

I think its Leabrook, Wednesbury, but not sure whether its the Monway or Brunswick works.

[Heartland]

it is Leabrook Chris

Nice to see you at the December Meeting

 

But it is Bagnalls Leabrook ironworks

 

 

 

[Heartland]

Another image to consider

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I feel that should be obvious but the only locks I can think of that might fit the bill are below taller archways

mmm…

 

 

[Split Pin]

Lock 3 Wolverhampton 21

Edited February 3 by Split Pin
Change of lock no

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Just now, Split Pin said:

Lock 4 Wolverhampton 21

after considering bottom of Aston flight

lock 4 of the Wolverhampton was my next choice,

but ain’t the viaduct much higher ?

4 minutes ago, Split Pin said:

Lock 3 Wolverhampton 21

lock 4 is the one with the viaduct