Rob-M Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pegg Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 I didn't know that the canal at this location used to continue further than it does today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Vectis Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 OK. I give up. Where is it? BTW and Does anyone else play the 'Where Was I?' in the Sunday Times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-M Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted June 25, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2022 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie patrick Posted June 25, 2022 Report Share Posted June 25, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Vectis Posted June 26, 2022 Report Share Posted June 26, 2022 Thanks for that chaps. I would never have guessed the location, even with the help of the cryptic clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted June 30, 2022 Report Share Posted June 30, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted July 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2022 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted July 1, 2022 Report Share Posted July 1, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted July 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted July 1, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2022 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogwr Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 Warrington Black Bear ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted July 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzard Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 My mum as a child used to play around there, she knew it as the St Helens canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pluto Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartland Posted July 3, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 Yes in this shot it is a Yorkshire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buccaneer66 Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 where is this then @Heartland would probably be a tourist attraction if it still existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidg Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 Home of Dougal, which I hope to have a go at firing before too long😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 Where is this? Painting by Harley Crosley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_JG Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek R. Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 The 'Jam Hole', Kearley & Tonges. Mitre Dock Southall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_JG Posted July 4, 2022 Report Share Posted July 4, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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