Stourport On Severn, View From Bridge c.1955
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Photo of Stourport On Severn, View From Bridge c.1955

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This view is slightly upstream of the locks that give access to the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal. The area in the foreground is today a large amusement park. The bridge left of centre and above the amusement arcade is over the narrow canal lock which gives access to Stourport Basin and the excellent collection of buildings there.

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Looking back now I think I must have been terrified when my dad took my sister and I on the swing boats which swung out so far you could see the water of the river underneath you. As you pulled the rope harder the boat would go higher. It was a regular "treat" each Sunday when my dad would take us on the Midland red bus from Wolverhampton to see my grandparents who lived in a ...see more