Rugeley Circa 1900

[Heartland]

That is a better view, the stream seems to be culverted

 

 

[Captain Pegg]

Just now, StephenA said:

 

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=19.1&lat=52.76130&lon=-1.93147&layers=168&right=ESRIWorld

 

Which is the same place as originally suggested. I had a feeling it was.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Address for cottages is ‘Anson Mews’, which relates to the Anson’s Land other side of bridge, on Heartlands map.

 

 

[Heartland]

The ariel from what is now Britain from Above shows the wharf as it was at Rugeley

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

another good photo to get stuck into 😃

what’s going on on the right ?there?

where we see half a hexagon and what looks like a hole but could be shadows 

[Ken X]

Go on then.🙂

 

My guess is a gasometer in the down position.

 

Who's next?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

3 minutes ago, Ken X said:

Go on then.🙂

 

My guess is a gasometer in the down position.

 

Who's next?

I thought that but didn’t they go down within a framework that stayed up?

 

 

[ditchcrawler]

1 minute ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

I thought that but didn’t they go down within a framework that stayed up?

 

 

Isn't that the half hexagon mentioned earlier

[magnetman]

Maybe an early trampoline..

 

 

They don't make 'em like they used to. 

[Ken X]

Could well be right.

 

I've seen the fixed type with an internal piston and the rising type with an external frame but this doesn't seem high enough.

 

Hmm.

 

Water reservoir?  Not a local so might have to resort to an old map or two. 

 

OC Domestic is giving me "the look" so I might have to go home for tea.🙂

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Could be Rugely was a base for the Nazi scientists and this was a base for their Time Machine ‘Bell’

[IanM]

Definitely a gasometer.

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

That’s a great photo, can we see here the course of the water that went/goes under the canal at the narrowing ? and see where it ended up. 
 

teatime for me too,

I’ll look proper at that later. 

[mark99]

1 hour ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:

I thought that but didn’t they go down within a framework that stayed up?

 

 

 

 

Column guided do. Spiral guided do not.

 

To complicate things, some column guided had a "flying lift" which was the top telescopic section without column guides.

Gasholders are not always big - here was one in Goudhurst operated by one man who did everything gas production wise.