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- Collection: The Thames & Severn Canal - Ashmead's Mill to Sapperton Tunnel
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Ashmeads Mill, the start of our journey
We start our journey at the large complex that was Ashmeads Mill as is shown here in c. 1885.The Mill is in the centre, with the canal across from the left-foreground. The canal is empty and in poor condition as this was just prior to the attempted…
Whitehall Lower Lock
1. This picture was taken from below Whitehall Lower Lock in 1909.The view shows the short pound between Puck Mill Upper Lock and Whitehall Lower Lock with the lock in the distance with the lengthsman's cottage alongside it. Following the restoration…
Below Siccaridge Wood Lower Lock
The locks are very close together here as the canal climbs steeply up to the summit level beyond Daneway Upper Lock.This was at the time, c. 1896, of the attempted Trust restoration and the canal has been emptied leading to the barge being marooned…
Daneway Basin and Wharf between 1905 and 1930.
Photographs L - R, T - B:1. In the first view from c. 1905, the barge appears to have unloaded and so is probably waiting to return to the west. Piles of stone are by the cottage and coal lies in front of the barge on the wharf. Daneway Saw Mills lie…