Where is this?

[WotEver]

Anybody recognise the location? A friend took it ‘in the Midlands’ some years ago but she can’t recall where.

even if you don’t know, it’s a pretty picture. 

[Neil Smith]

I don't know where it is but wondering if that wheelhouse got through ok.

Neil

[WotEver]

3 minutes ago, Neil Smith said:

I don't know where it is but wondering if that wheelhouse got through ok.

Neil

I thought it was a conservatory

[Graham Davis]

Can any one read what is on the sign on the inner arch of the bridge?

 

[BruceinSanity]

Can't place it but that's a Black Prince tied on the other side, implying a) it's not some out of the way arm and b ) it's a changeline bridge as the pic appears to have been taken from the towpath on this side. Or is that a junction going off to the right?

[David Mack]

I assumed the boats are on offside moorings.

[Rob-M]

It looks to me like the boats are on offside moorings, it doesn't look like a Black Prince boat to me. I was trying to think if it was the Northern Stratford but I don't recognise it.

[Onewheeler]

36 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:

Can any one read what is on the sign on the inner arch of the bridge?

 

No mooring?

[zenataomm]

The wheel house might have survived, but judging how far the counter is out, I reckon it lost the engine.

[BEngo]

I think it is on the Ashby, but can't recall exactly where.    The sign on the bridge looks a lot like one of  the water region boundary makers also seen on the Stratford.

N

[OldGoat]

Could it be at the upper end of Thrupp - near the church?

 

[WotEver]

5 minutes ago, BEngo said:

I think it is on the Ashby, but can't recall exactly where.    The sign on the bridge looks a lot like one of  the water region boundary makers also seen on the Stratford.

N

I agree that the scenery looks like the Ashby but I’ve been up and down there at least a dozen times and I don’t recall that bridge. 

[Rob-M]

Found this on Google (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1117195 ) which says it is East Manly bridge on the Grand Western

[zenataomm]

Well done that man, it's even the same boat facing a different way.

I call immediately for three Huzzahs !!!

[WotEver]

9 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Found this on Google (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1117195 ) which says it is East Manly bridge on the Grand Western

Yer a star

7 minutes ago, zenataomm said:

it's even the same boat facing a different way.

And it appears that its bum is back in the water too. 

[ditchcrawler]

29 minutes ago, OldGoat said:

Could it be at the upper end of Thrupp - near the church?

 

Yes

[rusty69]

What a great picture. Makes me want to go under the bridge and have a look. 

[David Mack]

5 hours ago, Rob-M said:

Found this on Google (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1117195 ) which says it is East Manly bridge on the Grand Western

So not ' in the midlands'!

[WotEver]

3 minutes ago, David Mack said:

So not ' in the midlands'!

No... I told you she couldn’t remember where she shot it  

[WotEver]

She replied... “Hi Tony. I thought my photo was taken walking along the Tardibigge lock system in Bromsgrove, a very beautiful but strenuous strip of the canal...”

Then she remembered that... “Thinking about it, I did take some photographs whilst on a horse drawn barge trip from Tiverton so perhaps you are right.”

[Neil Smith]

Good detective work david, and I see the boat with the wooden shed is the other way round so perhaps it does have an engine.

Neil

[WotEver]

1 hour ago, Neil Smith said:

Good detective work david, and I see the boat with the wooden shed is the other way round so perhaps it does have an engine.

Neil

Or the engine has been replaced. Its bum is back down with the counter level with the water. 

[David Mack]

1 hour ago, Neil Smith said:

Good detective work david

Not my detective work. Was Rob-M's.

[Horace42]

19 hours ago, Rob-M said:

Found this on Google (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1117195 ) which says it is East Manly bridge on the Grand Western

Out of interest, what did you type in google to search for it.

[Rob-M]

34 minutes ago, Horace42 said:

Out of interest, what did you type in google to search for it.

I used the Google Image search facility. On my Android tablet you can just hold your finger on an image and get a menu that has an option "Search Google for this image". You then get a page from Google of what it thinks are the best match. The one I linked to was quite near the top so didn't take long to look through the results. As it showed the same boat moored the other way round I was fairly certain it was the same location.