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The Bottle Kiln, Price and Kensington Top Bridge Works, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent.
Seen from the Trent & Mersey Canal passing through the Potteries.
02/11/2018.
Leicester Causeway.
Towpath entrance
Leicester Causeway is one of the few places in Coventry where the residential properties face on to the canal. The views between the street and the canal are restricted by the high railings along the edge of the tow path, which also restricts pedestrian access to the canal side.
The Coventry Canal dates from the early pioneering days of canal building in Britain and was promoted by a group of local business men with the chief aim in enabling the export of coal from their mines in north Warwickshire. In 1767 the Coventry Canal Company committee engaged James Brindley, the foremost canal engineer of the day, to survey a 38.5 mile route from Fradley to Coventry via Tamworth, Atherstone, Nuneaton and Bedworth. The construction of the canal required an Act of Parliament, which received Royal Assent on the 29th January 1768. The canal company appointed Brindley as engineer and surveyor and work began in Foleshill Parish, probably at Longford, in May 1768. The work proceeded in both directions and within six months coal was being transported from Bedworth to Longford. The canal reached the Coventry Basin on the 10th August 1769 where according to the Coventry Mercury newspaper;
"two boats laden with coal were brought to this city from this side of Bedworth. Being the first ones, they were received with loud cheers by a number of people who had assembled to witness their arrival".
James Brindley was also the engineer and surveyor of the Oxford Canal which was under construction at that time; Brindley anticipated that both canals would join together near Coventry to create a canal linking the Thames to the Mersey. The site of the junction was intended to be at Gosford Green to the east of Coventry City Centre, but the Oxford Canal Company decided that they wanted a junction at Bedworth instead. This would have saved the Coventry Canal Company the expense of building a branch to Gosford Green, but would also have deprived them of several miles of toll revenues. The dispute between the two companies dragged on and resulted in the Coventry Canal Company dismissing Brindley in September 1769 for his perceived clash of interests. A compromise was eventually agreed whereby the junction was built at Longford in 1777 with the canals running parallel alongside one another for a mile from Hawkesbury.
The Coventry Canal had reached Atherstone in 1772 but financial problems resulted in a lengthy break in construction and the final link to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Fradley was not completed until 1790. The completion of the link enabled goods traffic to travel from northern England to the south through Longford and meant that the four and a half miles from Longford to Coventry effectively become a branch serving the city.
On a recent a trip to Horsey Mere, Norfolk, this is a National Trust site.
Just before the storm hit!
This is one of many trails that you can walk on at Wildwood lake. This trail is 1.1 miles long. On one side is the lake and on the other side is a water canal. ( view larger )
I am not a film snob, but just occasionally I take a photograph on 35 mm that makes me think...yes, glad this one's not digital.
This is one such image, and I love it more than any I've taken for quite some time !
Taken on the new (old and battered) F3 (picture to come soon no doubt) with the f1.4 50mm (that came with it at a ridiculously cheap price).
River Lea, Tottenham Lock, London, UK
Captured along the Wey Navigation between Weybridge and Guildford. The Wey Navigation is 15.3 miles long and has 12 locks.One helluva bike ride! July 2020.
Is it me or does that tree in the middle, catching the sunlight, look as if it's going to shake itself free of the ground and start running towards me?
Or are my Serotonin levels dangerously low again.
After walking down from The Mailbox down the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, got off again at The Vale not far from Church Road.
The Edgbaston Tunnel renovations were completed in Spring 2018.
Plenty of cyclists heading down the towpath, had to stop and let them go past me, some even rang a bell on their bikes!
Bridge 84a.
[bye bye mozartstadt series, picture #2]
The old towpaths on both sides of the Salzach river, no more than five minutes away from home, were the perfect place to go for a walk or a run. [Taken on Winter 127 Day]
Los antiguos caminos de sirga a ambos lados del río Salzach, a menos de cinco minutos de casa, eran el lugar perfecto para ir a pasear o a correr. [Tomada en el Día 127 de Invierno]
Vest Pocket Kodak Autographic
Bausch&Lomb Rapid Rectilinear 80mm 1:7.7
Efke 100, ISO 100/21º
Caught between the rain showers
Come in she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm
Olympus 35 RC Fujicolour Superia 200
River Lee, East London, UK
The Journeyman (1999) by Stephen Hitchin
The Journeyman depicts the range of tools used by the “Navies” in the construction of the canal, mounted on a decorated cast bronze column. The sculpture is to be found immediately north of bridge No. 1.
Location: North of Bridge No. 1, Leicester Row (outside the Canal Basin).
The Coventry Canal dates from the early pioneering days of canal building in Britain and was promoted by a group of local business men with the chief aim in enabling the export of coal from their mines in north Warwickshire. In 1767 the Coventry Canal Company committee engaged James Brindley, the foremost canal engineer of the day, to survey a 38.5 mile route from Fradley to Coventry via Tamworth, Atherstone, Nuneaton and Bedworth. The construction of the canal required an Act of Parliament, which received Royal Assent on the 29th January 1768. The canal company appointed Brindley as engineer and surveyor and work began in Foleshill Parish, probably at Longford, in May 1768. The work proceeded in both directions and within six months coal was being transported from Bedworth to Longford. The canal reached the Coventry Basin on the 10th August 1769 where according to the Coventry Mercury newspaper;
"two boats laden with coal were brought to this city from this side of Bedworth. Being the first ones, they were received with loud cheers by a number of people who had assembled to witness their arrival".
James Brindley was also the engineer and surveyor of the Oxford Canal which was under construction at that time; Brindley anticipated that both canals would join together near Coventry to create a canal linking the Thames to the Mersey. The site of the junction was intended to be at Gosford Green to the east of Coventry City Centre, but the Oxford Canal Company decided that they wanted a junction at Bedworth instead. This would have saved the Coventry Canal Company the expense of building a branch to Gosford Green, but would also have deprived them of several miles of toll revenues. The dispute between the two companies dragged on and resulted in the Coventry Canal Company dismissing Brindley in September 1769 for his perceived clash of interests. A compromise was eventually agreed whereby the junction was built at Longford in 1777 with the canals running parallel alongside one another for a mile from Hawkesbury.
The Coventry Canal had reached Atherstone in 1772 but financial problems resulted in a lengthy break in construction and the final link to the Trent and Mersey Canal at Fradley was not completed until 1790. The completion of the link enabled goods traffic to travel from northern England to the south through Longford and meant that the four and a half miles from Longford to Coventry effectively become a branch serving the city.