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On 09/01/2025 at 11:08, David Mack said:

Can't give you exact dates, but below is a page from John Gagg's book 'Canals in Camera', published in 1970. So the cottage had gone by then.

When I first boated through here in 1974 the old bridge was still there and the 'smoothed-off pile of rubble' Gagg refers to comprised the bottom few inches of the cottage walls and a mound heaped up against the bridge, topped off with a rough concrete capping through which weeds were sprouting.

The new road bridge came later - 1990s I think - and was there when photographed by @PeterScott in 2001.

 

just for added interest, this painting hangs in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

 

 

 

Edited January 11 by 5239