Where I am

[Rob-M]

19 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Another Where I am, this time from Britain from Above Collection, 1938 date, the clue is this place was the terminus of an earlier river navigation and a cryptic clue "clothes fit for a stroll"

 

 

 

A very good cryptic clue.

 

With the image search features available it only takes a second or two to find the location.

[Ray T]

On 23/06/2022 at 15:12, Heartland said:

Wow, such detail

It is remarkable the depth of knowledge that exists out there

This photographer who died a few ago went on several trips with CACTUS, which has been mentioned in other threads

On some images Charlie Atkins seem to have had two water cans, how often did that happen?

 

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by Ray T

[Jonny P]

I didn't know that the canal at this location used to continue further than it does today.

[Victor Vectis]

OK.

I give up.

Where is it?

 

BTW and Does anyone else play the 'Where Was I?' in the Sunday Times?

[Rob-M]

1 hour ago, Victor Vectis said:

OK.

I give up.

Where is it?

 

BTW and Does anyone else play the 'Where Was I?' in the Sunday Times?

https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw057492

[Heartland]

Well for Victor Vectis, the canal is the Stourbridge Canal, Stourbridge Arm at Stourbridge on the border with AMBLE COAT

 

The Canal extended to a railway interchange basin, see Tom Foxon's Book Industrial Canal Vol 2

The River Navigation was the Stour, but that navigation terminus may well have been altered when the canal was made

The Bonded Warehouse is just visible in the ariel view

 

[magpie patrick]

14 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Well for Victor Vectis, the canal is the Stourbridge Canal, Stourbridge Arm at Stourbridge on the border with AMBLE COAT

 Very droll!

 

Strangely it was the football ground/cricket ground I thought I recognised. I've seen a few games there. 

[Victor Vectis]

Thanks for that chaps.

I would never have guessed the location, even with the help of the cryptic clue.

[David Mack]

On 21/06/2022 at 18:22, Heartland said:

 

if so the FMC motor Perch, Birmingham 1560 might fit

Perch was extant in 2013 is this still the case, I wonder ?

Coincidentally, Perch is in the background in a photo in another thread.

 

[Heartland]

Another location question, this time from 1967 and one of my own photos. I was interested in the Ruston and Hornsby diesel locomotive but there is a canal in the foreground, Any ideas ?

 

 

[IanD]

14 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Another location question, this time from 1967 and one of my own photos. I was interested in the Ruston and Hornsby diesel locomotive but there is a canal in the foreground, Any ideas ?

 

 

Shelton Bar steelworks?

 

I remember going through the middle of it by boat and feeling the heat from the furnaces and the rolling mill, seeing the hot metal and watching the sparks fly -- quite something...

Edited July 1, 2022 by IanD

[Heartland]

No not Shelton or on the Trent & Mersey Canal.

 

But that canal there was useful to get to the locomotive shed where the Dubs Crane Tank was to be seen then.

[Heartland]

Shelton Iron & Steel Works had a locomotive crane tank.

 

But the question of the canal location was up "norf" of there. In fact was an early canal navigation.

 

The Dubs loco in the shed:

 

 

[Ogwr]

Warrington Black Bear ?

[Heartland]

Warrington Black Bear ?

 

Well closer. It is actually St Helens, looking at one of the Pilkingtons Glassworks and their railway. Pilkington can be seen on one of the wagons

So the canal would be the Sankey Canal and the canal that went past the various glassworks, ironworks etc, If recall, it was in the Pocket Nook area, but may be somebody could clarify.

[bizzard]

My mum as a child used to play around there, she knew it as the St Helens canal.

[Pluto]

This is the remains of the swing bridge which carried the Pocket Nook line over the St Helens Canal branch. Your photo was taken a little bit further up the branch by Pilkington's Sheet Works, where for 6 months I attended their Apprentice Training School. The canal there was known 'The Hotties' as it was used as a cooling water reservoir. The diesel could be one of the Yorkshire Engine four wheel shunters which replaced steam around 1960. I was apprenticed at Cowley Hill which had been home to several Borrows well-tanks, and for six months I worked in the engine shed on repairs to the diesels. Shortly before I started my apprenticeship, Cowley Hill had given up responsibility for the narrow gauge locos used on the sand fields near Rainford, though we still held some of the wheel gauges in the fitting shop. Sand for glass making was delivered by BR locos, usually a 75xxx, in trains of Pilkington-liveried RCH standard wagons. Trains in non-BR liveries were very unusual at the time, and were certainly a reminder of what railways were like in pre-nationalisation days. Wagons running on BR lines were kept to a high standard and well painted.

[Heartland]

Yes in this shot it is a Yorkshire

 

 

[Chris Lowe]

where is this then @Heartland

 would probably be a tourist attraction if it still existed.

 

 

[davidg]

Home of Dougal, which I hope to have a go at firing before too long😊

[Ray T]

Where is this? Painting by Harley Crosley

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Where is this? Painting by Harley Crosley

 

If I was to hazard a guess I would say Ellesmere port.

[Derek R.]

The 'Jam Hole', Kearley & Tonges. Mitre Dock Southall.

[David Mack]

14 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:

 

If I was to hazard a guess I would say Ellesmere port.

Not if those are the former Barlow boats in Blue Line Cruisers livery!

[Guest]

Just now, David Mack said:

Not if those are the former Barlow boats in Blue Line Cruisers livery!

 

They got lost?

 

I dont profess to be an expert in NB livery but it wouldnt be the first time an artist has amalgamated several images to form a single finished picture.