Where I am

[Heartland]

These images have yet to be uploaded to the RCHS Website

 

The RCHS Canal Collection is complex as will be seen from previous posts on the forum

 

So far no body has identified the aqueduct which is one of my photos taken on a RCHS West Midlands Group Visit

 

 

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Heartland

[Tony Brooks]

15 minutes ago, Heartland said:

These images have yet to be uploaded to the RCHS Website

 

The RCHS Canal Collection is complex as will be seen from previous posts on the forum

 

So far no body has identified the aqueduct which is one of my photos taken on a RCHS West Midlands Group Visit

 

 

 

 

Milford aqueduct S&W ?

[matty40s]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

These images have yet to be uploaded to the RCHS Website

 

The RCHS Canal Collection is complex as will be seen from previous posts on the forum

 

So far no body has identified the aqueduct which is one of my photos taken on a RCHS West Midlands Group Visit

 

 

 

You mean the Forton Aqueduct...

One of my favourite canal bloggers..

http://captainahabswaterytales.blogspot.com/2010/06/forton-aqueduct-and-skew-bridge.html?m=1

Edited November 1, 2022 by matty40s

[Heartland]

Yes this aqueduct IS on the Norbury Junction- Wappenshall Route

 

[Ray T]

Where is this in the photo?
Also, where can this photo be seen?

[Captain Pegg]

50 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Where is this in the photo?
Also, where can this photo be seen?

Atherstone?

[matty40s]

1 hour ago, Captain Pegg said:

Atherstone?

I dont think so, factories dont drop away where the locks should be, and the Coleshill Road bridge would be visible.

[Captain Pegg]

3 minutes ago, matty40s said:

I dont think so, factories dont drop away where the locks should be, and the Coleshill Road bridge would be visible.

Nor do I think so now I’ve noticed that it’s a boat dock on the left. Didn’t pick out there’s a boat out of the water there when I first looked. There is a bridge visible though.

[matty40s]

33 minutes ago, Captain Pegg said:

Nor do I think so now I’ve noticed that it’s a boat dock on the left. Didn’t pick out there’s a boat out of the water there when I first looked. There is a bridge visible though.

That is where the old basin was, to the right of the top lock...but the angle of the bridge is wrong, coleshill road  ridge would be almost over the photographer.

[Captain Pegg]

9 minutes ago, matty40s said:

That is where the old basin was, to the right of the top lock...but the angle of the bridge is wrong, coleshill road  ridge would be almost over the photographer.

I had it as looking south at the bridge.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Captain Pegg

[Ray T]

I have no idea where it is except that it is the Coventry Canal! 

 

The explanation with the picture.

[matty40s]

I'm going for Swan Lane basin entrance in Coventry

[Chris M Jones]

This late 19th century image shows the Great Heath area of Coventry. The road bridge is Priestley’s Bridge No4 taking Stoney Stanton Road over the Coventry Canal. On the left are limekilns which was developed into Webster’s Brickworks.

 

The boat is ALERT owned by William Boon, road contractor of Coventry and Windmill Hill granite quarries, Nuneaton.

[Ray T]

Many thanks Chris.

 

The picture is displayed in a passageway between Salt Lane & Hertford St., Coventry.

 

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Ray T

[Goliath]

18 minutes ago, Chris M Jones said:

This late 19th century image shows the Great Heath area of Coventry. The road bridge is Priestley’s Bridge No4 taking Stoney Stanton Road over the Coventry Canal. On the left are limekilns which was developed into Webster’s Brickworks.

 

The boat is ALERT owned by William Boon, road contractor of Coventry and Windmill Hill granite quarries, Nuneaton.

Is that now the site where the Mosque is?

[matty40s]

Then....

 

 

Now...yes, the mosque is next to the bridge.

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by matty40s

[Heartland]

And now for something completely different. Where was this ?

 

 

 

And yes it was a canal !

 

 

Edited November 3, 2022 by Heartland

[matty40s]

4 minutes ago, Heartland said:

And now for something completely different. Where was this ?

 

 

 

And yes it was a canal !

 

 

Still is, just one bridge stopping its use....Bude.

[Rob-M]

54 minutes ago, Heartland said:

And now for something completely different. Where was this ?

 

 

 

And yes it was a canal !

 

 

You can buy a jigsaw of that picture, https://www.prints-online.com/bude-cornwall-1900-614457.html

[Heartland]

Well I could have given a picture of one of the inclines, but then it is nice find such a knowledge of our inland waterways network on this Forum.

[Heartland]

Time for another Where I am

 

any ideas?

 

 

[Chris M Jones]

Looks like the C&RT workshops at Bradley, Bilston to me.

[Heartland]

Well done Chris, now what is the plaque on the building commemorating ?

 

[Goliath]

Isn’t it something to do with deaths during an air raid?

 

[Goliath]

Found the plaque 👍

I had a vague recollection that it was something to do with an air raid.

Well before the site became a workshop for lock gates.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 17, 2022 by Goliath