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Memories
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Post War Brownsover
From the late 1940's to 1969 I remember this area as part housing, part prefabricated homes because of the war. Many old features were still around like barges carrying coal on the Oxford canal, the old disused mill, the ...Read more
A memory of Brownsover by
Rectory Cottage
To be honest the year is a little vague to me now, but it would have been around the mid-fifties that I have my first memories of Rectory Cottage. I was brought up in England, but my father John Elwyn was born there and my ...Read more
A memory of Llangattock in 1956 by
Happy Days
I lived in Fron until I was 16. Lived at what was "Bourne Terrace". Went to Fron School then Llangollen Grammar School. Fond memories of working in my Uncles shop (Ethelstons) and delivering bread and groceries around the ...Read more
A memory of Froncysyllte in 1960 by
My Village As A Child
I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her ...Read more
A memory of Grainthorpe
Benson Street
I lived at no 5, neighbours were George Sharples, Peter Humphries, Charlie Chedell. I went to Winsor Road School. We used to play on the railway sidings, and donkey bridge. In the winters we would go over to Peel Park and slide down ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1954 by
I Remember That Jane And Amber
Our family lived in Droitwich until 1965 when we moved to Australia. My brother and I went to Rashwood School and I remember that hill. I used to play rounders on the grassed area near the vegetable patch. The ...Read more
A memory of Droitwich Spa in 1960 by
Awalk With Grandfather
A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, ...Read more
A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by
Playing On The Canal
I spent many happy days here with my brother and sister. Playing in home-made boats made from corrugated tin, catching tadpoles and skating on very thin ice in the winter. I lived in Woodview Road and my grandparents lived in Mount Pleasant.
A memory of Risca by
Takes Me Back
In this picture, the post in the middle of the path is an old canon barrel. When I went for walks along this canal as a kid, I can remember running on ahead of my parents a short distance with my brother and sister to the canon ...Read more
A memory of Pontymister by
Station Road
I have very fond memories of walking up this road in order to catch the old steam train to Chippenham, but alighting at Black Dog so that we could visit my grandparents who lived in Stanley. In younger days, I would paddle in the canal ...Read more
A memory of Calne in 1950 by
Captions
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It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.
The canal at Drayton Manor, with its unique Gothic-style footbridge, complete with battlements.
A craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal.
The plan, which would have involved breaching the Loe Bar and running a canal inland all the way to Helston, was priced at £118,523; not surprisingly, it was never carried out.
This is the Grand Union Canal. The line was built by the Grand Junction company between London and Braunston (Northants).
Designed and constructed as a working tool, canals have become some of the most attractive and restful waterways in Britain.
The Royal Military Canal stretches parallel with the coast, hidden by the furthest trees in the middle distance. Note how little the seafront is built up at this time.
Two loaded narrowboats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.
At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the mile-long Ulverston Canal, England's shortest.
The pieces (rolls) were delivered by canal boat, and after cutting were returned to Manchester for dyeing and finishing.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
A canal and railway passed under the bridge. To the right is Brassknocker Hill.
The foreground one is possibly Cofton Reservoir and the other may be Upper Bittell Reservoir, which was built as a canal feeder in 1836.
This view looks north from the old Guildford Road Bridge, with the canal aqueduct across the Waterloo - Basingstoke line in the background.
Its prosperity increased after a canal was dug connecting the River Ant with the Broads.
Exeter's canal was built at the request of the Tudor merchants, who were exasperated by the weirs on the Exe that obstructed their vessels.
Its prosperity was increased after a canal was dug connecting the River Ant with the Broads.
It was once a modest seaport for the Bude Canal but grew in size and importance after the railway arrived in the 1890s.
This must be a very early photograph of the navigation, for the canal did not open until 1 January 1894. 36 miles long, and many years (and financial crises) under construction, it linked Manchester to
There were nine swing bridges over the canal, seven of them being where major roads crossed. Some crossing points not considered important enough for a bridge were provided with ferries.
The mill is on the North Walsham and Dilham Canal. Sir William Cubitt, an engineer best known for inventing the prison treadmill, was born here in 1785.
At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.
In this view the pub, the river, and both bridges can all be seen. Note the pole sign for the pub standing in the river.
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