Where I am

[dmr]

50 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Was it September and the had A Christmas tree?

It was quiz night I remember. 
And the beer was Lewes?

👍

 remembered in the end

knew where it were just got me pubs muddled

The beer in J W Lees, you can usually smell the Brewery at the next lock up. A lot of the local pubs are Lees pubs. Its brown dishwater type stuff, a traditional beer that some people like, but as you know I am a fan of the new fangled hoppy "alcoholic grapefruit juice" type beers. 

And yes, we had a very hard boating day and sat in the corner behind the Christmas eating and drinking with the "ugly sister".There was a quiz and the pub was rammed.

[Goliath]

Of course Lees!!

I don’t mind it, I got to admit.

Its Manchester brewed ?

Easy drinking, needs a whisky on the side mind, but it’s ok. 
 

Ugly sister??

[Goliath]

Here’s the easiest of easy where I (y)am?

 

[springy]

I saw you moored there earlier today.

 

springy

[Goliath]

👍

should have said hello 👋 

[Ray T]

Fairly easy.

[rusty69]

2 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Fairly easy.

 

Is it the the DIY brick rocket builders association entry to put the first man on Mars?

[David Mack]

20 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Fairly easy.

Now the site of the gift shop.

[Tony Brooks]

Looks like Fred Dibnah is prepping the "tower" to be bought down.

[David Mack]

13 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:

Looks like Fred Dibnah is prepping the "tower" to be bought down.

Must have been a bit alarming as you wouldn't know exactly when the chimney was going to fall.

[Rob-M]

The chimney at the Stoke Bruerne mill ready for demolition. A gap in the structure is made and shored up by timbers which will be set alight - Fred Dibnah-style. The year is 1914.

[Goliath]

23 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

The chimney at the Stoke Bruerne mill ready for demolition. A gap in the structure is made and shored up by timbers which will be set alight - Fred Dibnah-style. The year is 1914.

There looks to be a cut out in the bricks at the back.

I wonder if they removed a couple of courses of bricks to help it break and fall away from the building behind?

 

Great photo👍

[Rob-M]

An easy one for today...

[ditchcrawler]

7 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

An easy one for today...

When was that taken with all the overgrown foliage removed

[Rob-M]

9 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

When was that taken with all the overgrown foliage removed

Taken today.

[ditchcrawler]

29 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Taken today.

Thats good its been cleaned up.

[Goliath]

1 hour ago, Rob-M said:

Taken today.

which way you heading?

might catch you if you’re heading to your mooring from there,

I may need a hand reversing 😂

Which’ll tell you where I am again 

 

 

[Rob-M]

1 hour ago, Goliath said:

which way you heading?

might catch you if you’re heading to your mooring from there,

I may need a hand reversing 😂

Which’ll tell you where I am again 

 

 

We were in the car, boat still on the mooring.  Will be on it until Tuesday evening.

[Heartland]

OK when was the concrete for the bridge put in and the lock gates renewed ?

[Pluto]

Which canal warehouse?

[Heartland]

Pluto has presented a challenge and I shall present another but give a clue that this was a blast furnace canal basin where the furnace used a vertical lift to take calcined ironstone and limestone to the top.

 

[Goliath]

I haven’t a clue about either Pluto’s or Heartland’s. 
 

but I will bump it up by having a guess 

maybe Heartland’s is somewhere between the Dudley Canals ?

🤷‍♀️Brierley Hill somewhere ?

 

[BEngo]

Guessing at Heartland's.  The boat in the foreground looks BCN day boat, so possibly a hotholer at Bilston, or less likely, because the ground falls away from the cut there,   Round Oak.

 

Is Pluto's the remains of Crescent Wharf?

 

N

[Heartland]

Well as to mine it is on the BCN and in South Staffordshire it was on the opposite bank to a foundry and beside a canal originally authorised in 1794 and near that ungodly place SODOM

As to the unanswered post by Goliath and others, it would nice to have clarification instead of confusion.

[Pluto]

Another view of the buildings, this time on the road side. The photo is from the Waterways Archive.