Where am I, internationally?

[Pluto]

Your wish is my command!

[matty40s]

Easy one...

 

[magpie patrick]

On 19/01/2024 at 23:10, StephenA said:

Here's an odd one

 

Somewhere in the US? Not the enlarged Erie Canal I don't think

 

The Farmington Canal in Connecticut? 

[Heartland]

Somewhere in the United States where it clearly rains. Could this be another type of house boat?

 

 

[StephenA]

On 22/01/2024 at 16:54, magpie patrick said:

 

Somewhere in the US? Not the enlarged Erie Canal I don't think

 

The Farmington Canal in Connecticut? 

 

Somewhere in the US - neither of those. Not all the locks on the canal are like this.

[Heartland]

It is part of a post card which my late Uncle Harold collected and he was killed in a tank battle in World War 2

 

It is a river and this image of same river is shown passing through a flooded Manchester, but not the one in this country

 

 

[Dav and Pen]

The Merrimack River New Hampshire.

[Heartland]

Yus that saves me making the clue about happy coats to keep out the rain. Well done

 

But when the flooding in British Rivers is concerned, they look slight to what happens in America!

 

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, Heartland said:

Yus that saves me making the clue about happy coats to keep out the rain. Well done

 

But when the flooding in British Rivers is concerned, they look slight to what happens in America!

 

 

Well, it is a well known fact that everything in America is bigger and better - the yanks tell us so.

[Heartland]

They do that don't they!

 

 

 

Bat out of Hell- a demon cricketer ?

[Pluto]

This was one of the earliest European developments towards building a chamber lock, but where is it, and when was it built?

[Heartland]

I would have thought that locks predated photography 

So an alternative here is a modern structure to test the grey cells

 

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

Magdeburg Canal - Bridge across the Elbe - Minden

[Pluto]

The earliest locks may have predated photography, but the one which I illustrated previously still survives, as this 1996 photo shows.

[Heartland]

Alan has the answer for Magdeburg

 

As to Mikes question there were early canals in France, and elsewhere, but some sort of clue might assist. 

[Pluto]

As a through waterway it only lasted a few years, but this end remained in service into the 20th century. It is not in France, where waterway development only really got going after Leonardo da Vinci was kicked out of Italy and was granted a safe haven by the King of France. This waterway pre-dates that.

[Pluto]

The photo shows the Mellingburger Locks, near Hamburg, on the river and canal connection between the Elbe and Lübeck, known as the Alster-Beste-Kanal. Proposed in 1448, it was finally completed in 1529, but lasted as a through route for just 21 years, though the lower section on the river Alster was still in use as a navigation into the 20^th century.

[Dav and Pen]

This is the last lock ( or first) to a tidal river the longest in this country.

 

 

[magnetman]

I keep misreading the title as 'where am I, intentionally'

 

 

 

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

 

that was my intention 

[Wittenham]

[Wittenham]

1 hour ago, Wittenham said:

I put this one in only because 'hey mom, we can see our house from here!'.  Plus my father helped build the bridge from which the picture is taken [picture nicked off the internet, so if you know how to do image search, you will find it]

[Dav and Pen]

Think this is the Welland canal in the Great Lakes, the only triple lock I know of on a big waterway apart from the Panama.

[Wittenham]

1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

Think this is the Welland canal in the Great Lakes, the only triple lock I know of on a big waterway apart from the Panama.

 

That is the one, looking north from the Garden City Skyway to [I think] Lock 3.  To be precise, it is the fourth Welland Canal, the remains of the others are scattered around parks and other waterways in the city of St Catharines.

[Pluto]

This is another little-known European canal project. The photo shows the remains of the beginning of a cutting for a canal excavated in 1608. There is a railway embankment crossing it in the background. It was the second attempt at building this canal, the first one dating from the 1550s. The canal was finally constructed inn the 1840s, rebuilt in the 1960s, and is still in use today.