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Childhood Days
I too have happy and sad memories of Thurnscoe. I started school in 1952 at Hill Infants. Mrs Cartlidge was our teacher. I still remember where I sat behind the door and being given a small blackboard and chalk on my first day ...Read more
A memory of Thurnscoe in 1952
Memories Of A Childhood In Southwick
I went to Southwick Primary School. I remember being picked as a 'flag flyer' and welcoming the Duke of Edinburgh when he opened the new lock. I think it was in about 1955. We were unable to use the locks ...Read more
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My Schooldays 1952 54 Near Skipton
My Grandparents lived at 26 Otley Street in Skipton from the 1940 ( or earlier ) and I had first visited them in 1945 after VE day, They were Thomas Henry Jackson, my Grandmother Charlotte Jackson and their ...Read more
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Fish And Chips At Hest Bank
when i was young i would go for fish and chips they were great and there was always something to do some where to ride on our bikes at hest bank. I now live in australia and in 2006 took my three girls to england for ...Read more
A memory of Hest Bank in 1965 by
Pont Y Waun
This is a view of Pont-y waun from Pont-y-waun bridge. If you look closely you can just make out the canal that ran parallel to the railway line. In the background is the Rhwsg mountain which I had the pleasure to climb frequently as a kid and even recently on my mountain bike!
A memory of Pontywaun in 1970 by
I Remember When It Burned Down...
Such a shame. Many wonderful hours spent fishing around the Mill and surrounding waterways - Deadman's Pool, the backwater, shingle island, Manor Island and 'The Bend'. All swept away one year and turned into a canal! Shame really...
A memory of Kempston by
Brimscombe Corner & Burleigh 1910 62690
This photo is taken 100 yards up Brimscombe lane, looking back across the Golden Valley. The lane itself leads back up to Thrupp Lane & Dark lane, which is on its way to Quarhouse and the Lypiatt Manor, ...Read more
A memory of Brimscombe by
Happy Times
Hello Christine, I have only just seen your memory and I couldn't believe it. I remember playing with you at my house on Rykneld Street. We had a lot of fun in the village like you say, especially down by the canal. I also remember you ...Read more
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Great Bridge 50’s And 60’s
I was born in Great Bridge in the 1950’s in Slater Street, I went to Fisher Street School until I was eleven. I remember Irene Edwards sweet shop and Teddy Grays on the the canal bridge just before the market. I loved ...Read more
A memory of Great Bridge by
Kidbrooke And My Childhood
My dad returned from the war in 1946. My mother and I were living in Eltham with my grandparents and her brothers and sister. It was pretty crowded. We moved into the prefabs on Kidbrooke Way shortly after and my sister ...Read more
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I wonder if these people were charged every time they used the canal, or if they paid a one-off or annual fee.
Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.
The Aylesbury Arm was branch from the Grand Junction Canal, later the Grand Union Canal, which ran from near Marsworth across the Vale to Aylesbury; it opened in 1815, twenty years after it was first authorised
To its south is Saddington Reservoir, a picturesque stretch of water created in the 1790s to feed the Grand Union Canal.
The Bridgewater Canal was the first proper canal to be built and it linked Manchester with Worsley. It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn.
First railways and then the motor age signalled the end of the canal network for commercial use.
The Macclesfield Canal was not completed until 1831, but provided a link between the Peak Forest and the Trent & Mersey canals.
The canal meets the River Gade at Heath Park, to the south of Marlowes.
When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.
Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.
This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)
The network of canals developed mainly in the 18th century before the arrival of the railway.
This flight of locks is probably on the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal, which was built between 1797 and 1812 for transporting stone from Brecon to Newport for export, and for moving processed lime from
The GWR had just taken over the running of the canal and had set up a bridge-building section specifically for canal work.
The Basingstoke Canal, opened in 1794, was in decay in the 1950s, but it has been restored to reopen in 1991.
Stourport stands where the river Stour meets the Severn; it grew in importance after James Brindley built a canal junction there in the 1760s.
The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.
The Caribou Hotel overlooks the basin and locks, which connect the Lancaster Branch Canal with the sea.
On the canal near Bratch Locks.The canal is narrow; the maximum dimensions for watercraft are 70ft x 7ft x 3ft draught, with headroom of just 7ft, 6in.
Solid evidence of Victorian endeavour and values, Stephenson's great viaduct carries the Liverpool/Manchester railway over the Sankey Canal.
Two steamers head for the tidal lock at Eastham on their way out of the Manchester Ship Canal.
This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure. In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.
In this picture we see the Manchester Ship Canal with the Mersey immediately beyond it.
The Wyrley and Essington Canal recalls an earlier development boom, when Britain was gripped by canal fever. Opened in 1797, it is now known affectionately as the Curly Wyrley.
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