Where I am

[John Brightley]

53 minutes ago, Pluto said:

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

That helped ! Warehouse at Rochdale branch terminal basin. I found another photo here: http://www.derekparsons.com/RDB-Rochdale.html.html

[Pluto]

3 hours ago, John Brightley said:

That helped ! Warehouse at Rochdale branch terminal basin. I found another photo here: http://www.derekparsons.com/RDB-Rochdale.html.html

The first photo was taken in 1975, when there was somewhat more to see.

[David Mack]

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On 05/02/2023 at 10:08, Pluto said:

Which canal warehouse?

And a recent Google Streetview image looking in much the same direction (from Drake Street), with the tower of the fire station (now the Fireground firefighting museum) visible in the background.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

On 08/02/2023 at 08:36, Heartland said:

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

a quick Google refers to Sodom Chapel, later renamed Ettingshall Chapel, and you must be on the Walsall Canal with 1794?

So BEngo gotta be getting close with Bilston.?

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

I’m gonna say Birchills

 

Edited February 9 by Goliath

[Heartland]

Ettingshall was closer. The 1794 act not only authorised the Walsall Canal but also the Bloomfield to Deepfield Cut.

The blast furnaces were served by canal and later a railway branch from the Stour Valley Railway

Twigg and Smith were awarded the contract to build the Bloomfield to Deepfields route but only parts were initially cut, The narrow tunnel was started but not finished and whilst parts were extended the tunnel part had to wait for Thomas Telford to suggest that this link be finished complete with a tunnel and two towpaths !

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

On 07/02/2023 at 19:38, BEngo said:

The boat in the foreground looks BCN day boat, so possibly a hotholer at Bilston,

why called a hotholer?

 

[David Mack]

I thought the word was 'ot'oler.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

2 hours ago, David Mack said:

I thought the word was 'ot'oler.

and what is one?

 

 

 

….don’t say a boat. 😃

[Heartland]

Bilston- that is presumably the reference to the craft associated with the Spring Vale Furnaces there. The image above shows a boat in the basin of the Priorsfield Furnaces which belonged H B Whitehouse and that basin joined the new main line north of Coseley Tunnel, near the Canon Foundry, and south of the Boat and Matty;s Yard

[Heartland]

As to the interesting post of the Rochdale Canal Basin, it should be remembered that there were a group of warehouses around the basin in Rochdale as is shown in this 1929 image from Britain from Above-

 

 

Edited February 10 by Heartland

[BEngo]

2 hours ago, Goliath said:

and what is one?

 

 

 

….don’t say a boat. 😃

A  'ot'oler was a boatman's  name for one working regularly or exclusively to the iron and steel works (Spring Vale?)  on the BCN main line at Bilston.  In the same vein as Greasy 'Ockers, Mud Heelers and Woolly Backed 'uns.

 

At Bilston, like at Shelton in Stoke-on-Trent, the canal was close enough to the action of the works that passing boats could feel the heat of the iron or steel as it  was processed. At Bilston I vaguely recall it  it was blast furnaces and pig beds that were near the cut. At Shelton it was the cogging mill.

 

  Both sites were playgrounds for 12 in to the foot scale Tonka toys last time we passed.

 

N

[Pluto]

How about this one. Looking up a canal bed from a filled-in lock coping.

[Heartland]

Towpath on the right and presumably a lock house that was lived in hence the grass. From this angle it is difficult to decide if the canal lock was narrow or wide. but the width of the canal may well be barge

[Ray T]

4 hours ago, Pluto said:

How about this one. Looking up a canal bed from a filled-in lock coping.

 

Your back garden?

[Pluto]

It might not look like it, but it is the New Cut.

[Heartland]

I thought there was a water shortage but if it is near Barlick the CRT manager needs to walk the plank into a reservoir near you which has werta.

 

[Heartland]

As stated before, not everybody might recognise the location

And, with details 

 

Goliath posted the following image which some know, but did not elaborate, it seems.

It could be various places but lamps by basins provides an intriguing choice as to where?

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

At the time of taking the photo, it seemed to need no introduction,

Thinking most boaters would have made a visit here.

However here’s some clues to help if it’s not immediately recognisable;

 

over the fence beside the bridge is another bridge across an arm to a basin and lime kilns, and is that bridge the only surviving hand operated lift bridge which rises level on chains?

one has to wind here, unless you’re legging it

Edited February 12 by Goliath

[Rob-M]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

As stated before, not everybody might recognise the location

And, with details 

 

Goliath posted the following image which some know, but did not elaborate, it seems.

It could be various places but lamps by basins provides an intriguing choice as to where?

 

 

Looks like the bridge at the Black Country Living Museum.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

20 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Looks like the bridge at the Black Country Living Museum.

Yes

Brown’s Bridge

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

15 hours ago, Goliath said:

Yes

Brown’s Bridge

And I ought perhaps have asked about the plaque on Browns Bridge as a clue?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

19 hours ago, Pluto said:

It might not look like it, but it is the New Cut.

The New Cut is something I’d never heard of. 
thanks for the introduction

[Heartland]

Thanks for Goliath to explain in his own words where it is

 

Now locations change even if the lamp post might remain for a few years---- this a 1990's view before Browns Bridge

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

16 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Thanks for Goliath to explain in his own words where it is

 

Now locations change even if the lamp post might remain for a few years---- this a 1990's view before Browns Bridge

 

that’s an interesting photo, 

 

so while Browns Bridge is clearly a recent construction, is the lift bridge in its original position?

or was it brought from elsewhere?