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Memories
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Glansevern Lodge
My gran, Mrs Evans, used to live at Glansevern Lodge, a loveley old sandstone building with trees all around it, and big rhododenderon bushes. It was a long wallk from the pump we used to get water from up to the house. We used to ...Read more
A memory of Berriew in 1968 by
We All Bumped Our Heads
At sixteen I owned a three wheeler convertible that with a bit of bending of the law sixteen year olds were allowed to drive. Plus the fact that the coppers didn't know how the law stood exactly. The car was a Powerdrive, ...Read more
A memory of Cowley in 1963 by
Ushers Shop
I have always known it as Ushers, although I remember it being run by a Mr. Fisher who has a teenage daughter who had a pony....I remember her being very kind to me when I was a little girl. I remember her singing a song ...Read more
A memory of St Martins in 1960 by
Filling In A Beauty Spot
Approximately around the 1950s it was decided to fill in the canal from the Wharf to the junction at Wrexham Road via Chemistry Lane. Most of the canal fill material was household and business rubbish but to us young ...Read more
A memory of Whitchurch in 1950 by
Fun In The Boats
I can remember when I was in my teens, myself and a group of friends would hire the boats from the boat house and row all afternoon on Sundays, we had loads of fun up and down the canal, seems like another life time now, 40 year's ...Read more
A memory of Byfleet in 1966
Happy Days
My mother's family were from Appledore and although I was born on a visit up north to my father's family, I was only a few months old when we came back. We lived in various houses in the village, Canal Cottages and Hawthorn being ...Read more
A memory of Appledore in 1942 by
The Harpers
I remember this view very well, though by 1965, I'd married and left the village. We lived at the top of Nursery Lane, No 37. My dad worked at the Nursery. I remember Ann's mum and their bungalow being built. I was a frequent visitor to ...Read more
A memory of Hopwas in 1965 by
The Old Primary School
I attended the old primary school via School Lane through the 1930s and early 1940s, the teachers were E L Richards (head), Mr Withers, Miss Austen, Miss Lewis. The school by the old canal was a very happy school, and through ...Read more
A memory of Gilwern in 1930 by
Bailey Bridge Pontoon Canal Cruisers.
I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph. Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US ...Read more
A memory of Great Haywood in 0 by
Ice Skating On The Port
In the very cold winter of 1963 the canal port (known as the polly basin) froze over we were able to go iceskating , Brimscombe Hill had deep snow drifts and was shutdown but we still got the papers delivered !!! I was a paper boy at the time aged 11 yrs
A memory of Brimscombe in 1963 by
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The Chesterfield Canal begins at the distant hump-backed bridge beyond a moored motor cruiser. The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.
In the early 19th century, the colliery at Brereton nearby was connected by rail to a wharf, which enabled coal to be transported along the Trent and Mersey canal.
The bridge in our picture was erected when the river was diverted to form part of the Ship Canal in 1894.
Our photographer is standing on the bridge over the lock which separates the dock from the Lancaster Canal basin.
The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Weaver. Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.
The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.
Today Hythe stages a popular summer Venetian Festival to celebrate its famous canal, which remains an ideal place for a punt and a day on the water.
This delightful stretch of towpath, with its lines of quaint cottages and period houses, is where the Kennet & Avon Canal enters Newbury on its way to meet the Thames at Reading.
An important medieval town, it declined until the early 19th century when the Horncastle Navigation Canal opened, giving access to Lincoln and Boston.
Running close by is the Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and constructed between 1827 and 1835, linking Birmingham to the Mersey.
In the first year of operation, goods weighing 76,000 tons were carried on the canal. Salt is still mined here from huge underground caves.
The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal (above) with the river Weaver below. Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.
There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right
Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.
Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.
This view looks towards one of the entrances to the series of underground canals that extended to the Duke's pits at Walkden.
Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.
The main A59 road from Liverpool to Preston runs through the centre of the village, and at the far end, rises over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
We are looking west from the canal towpath towards the town, with the church spire in the centre distance.
In 1793 the Basin at Heybridge was dug out to provide access from the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal to the sea via the sea lock.
The Bude Canal, in which these schooners are moored, was built in 1823 to carry sand inland to improve farmland, but it ended up carrying all manner of cargoes including coal from South Wales.
Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby. Only just visible on the horizon is part of Lancaster University.
The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.
These are one of five sets of locks used to even out the water level along the canal.
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