Photo location required

[John Brightley]

I'm currently scanning a box of photo prints from the Hugh Compton Collection for the RCHS online archive. This photo is entitled 'Oxford Canal 2013 Thrupp Roundham Lock'. However it clearly isn't the Oxford Canal as it is a wide lock. Can anyone identify the location please ? Thanks in advance.

[Rob-M]

The chimney and factory in the background get a Google image match to Cadbury's chocolate factory but doesn't give location of the factory.

[magnetman]

Presumably it is a river judging by the layby construction. 

 

 

 

 

[Rob-M]

It could be the old Cadbury's factory at Keynsham in the background and there is a lock on the Avon at Keynsham near the marina.

Keynsham lock, photo from Canalplan

[Jen-in-Wellies]

16 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

It could be the old Cadbury's factory at Keynsham in the background and there is a lock on the Avon at Keynsham near the marina.

Here in Keynsham. There is a Chocolate Retirement Village in the right place. Presumably on the site of the old factory. The chimney is gone. Everything matches, lock, lock landing and alignment to where the factory was. Photo probably taken from the road bridge.

https://goo.gl/maps/o56W6HJNfuosJz5u9

 

[Rob-M]

My parents used to moor in Keynsham marina and we used to play around what was the old Fry's factory before Cadbury bought them.

[magpie patrick]

Hi John,

 

That's Keynsham Lock 

 

I didn't know you were one of the RCHS scanning team! Keep up the good work!

[John Brightley]

Thanks for the quick responses everyone. Well done for the identification - I knew this was the best place to ask ! Streetview usefully has a photo from 2012 which confirms it as well. 

[Heartland]

Not all Hugh Compton prints or slides are correctly identified.

 

It should be recognised that the late Hugh Compton was the waterways collection officer for the RCHS, and his "collection" amounts to images collected from a variety of sources. Hugh wrote the book on the Oxford Canal and should not have made that mistake, so has somebody else decided on this caption?

 

The small print collection had images supplied by  

R.Atthill, B Baxter, Maurice Berrill, Gordon Biddle, Ruth Brick,I Cohen, Hugh Compton, R.A Cook,, Edwin Course, P Daniels, O Davies, L.A Edwards

A.H Faulkner, C Faulkener, C Gates, J.S Gilkes, D Green,  E.C.R.H (Charles Hadfield), J.A Hall, P.A Norton, Peter Stevenson, A.P Voce, F.C.M Watson

and Philip Weaver.

 

The small print collection in the various boxes had no Oxford Canal images, but there were some in the Medium & Large Print Collection. There were also separate collections for Wales and Scotland and then there is the slide collection. The slide collection has donations that were good, fair, indifferent and bad.

But as Pluto has remarked on several occasions all images need to be scanned and recorded as there is useful information in them regardless of quality.