Daneway Wharf Lock, commonly known as Summit Lock - from 1905 to 1967
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Daneway Wharf Lock, commonly known as Summit Lock - from 1905 to 1967
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Photographs L - R, T - B:
1,2. These two views are both from c. 1905 and both show Daneway Wharf Lock which was number six up the flight of locks approaching Daneway. The entrance to the Wharf Basin is to the left in the first picture showing the canal and basin well filled with water.
In the second picture the entrance to the basin is to the right with the Wharf cottage shown clearly at the rear of the wharf down by the side of the bridge.
3. this view, from before 1915, is believed to be the Daneway Wharf Lock or Basin Lock and not one of those further down the flight of locks leading up to Daneway. In the distance can be seen the chimney of Daneway Saw Mills, and also the Bricklayer's Arms. Note that the brick edging on the right has collapsed close to the entrance to the canal of the overspill water from the Daneway Basin.
4. This view from c. 1905, shows an empty barge in the lock waiting to go down the flight. Until the First World War, Smart's barges were quite regular visitors to Daneway Basin with coal, tar, oil and stone, usually returning empty or with odd loads of timber, peasticks or faggots of wood. Over the bows of the barge can be seen the side ponds of the locks further down the flight.
5. The Cirencester Wesleyan Brotherhood on a ramble to Edgeworth (posing at Daneway), 11 August 1906. It is difficult to identify exactly where the group is posed, but it could be near the wharf or Summit Lock (more formally Daneway Bridge Lock), or even close to the western portal of the canal at Sapperton. However, at this date the party could possibly have come from Cirencester by canal barge. They were just about to start the ramble to Edgeworth, some two miles away.
6. Daneway Wharf Lock, 1911. Looking across the lock to the Bricklayers Arms on the road. Note the old landau-type car on the road.
7. This view is looking west towards the Summit Lock, c. 1910 - 1914. There is very low water and the towpath on the left is overgrown, showing that all navigation here has ceased.
8. Daneway Wharf Lock, 1916.
9. A picnic at Daneway Lower Lock (Wharf Lock or Daneway Basin Lower Lock).
10. Mr and Mrs Gleed. Mr George Gleed worked for Smart's at Chalford took the last commercial load of 20 tons of roadstone through the tunnel in May 1911 to Lechlade and returned with a load of timber.
11. By 1967 the garden of the inn had become the car park and Summit Lock has been infilled.
1,2. These two views are both from c. 1905 and both show Daneway Wharf Lock which was number six up the flight of locks approaching Daneway. The entrance to the Wharf Basin is to the left in the first picture showing the canal and basin well filled with water.
In the second picture the entrance to the basin is to the right with the Wharf cottage shown clearly at the rear of the wharf down by the side of the bridge.
3. this view, from before 1915, is believed to be the Daneway Wharf Lock or Basin Lock and not one of those further down the flight of locks leading up to Daneway. In the distance can be seen the chimney of Daneway Saw Mills, and also the Bricklayer's Arms. Note that the brick edging on the right has collapsed close to the entrance to the canal of the overspill water from the Daneway Basin.
4. This view from c. 1905, shows an empty barge in the lock waiting to go down the flight. Until the First World War, Smart's barges were quite regular visitors to Daneway Basin with coal, tar, oil and stone, usually returning empty or with odd loads of timber, peasticks or faggots of wood. Over the bows of the barge can be seen the side ponds of the locks further down the flight.
5. The Cirencester Wesleyan Brotherhood on a ramble to Edgeworth (posing at Daneway), 11 August 1906. It is difficult to identify exactly where the group is posed, but it could be near the wharf or Summit Lock (more formally Daneway Bridge Lock), or even close to the western portal of the canal at Sapperton. However, at this date the party could possibly have come from Cirencester by canal barge. They were just about to start the ramble to Edgeworth, some two miles away.
6. Daneway Wharf Lock, 1911. Looking across the lock to the Bricklayers Arms on the road. Note the old landau-type car on the road.
7. This view is looking west towards the Summit Lock, c. 1910 - 1914. There is very low water and the towpath on the left is overgrown, showing that all navigation here has ceased.
8. Daneway Wharf Lock, 1916.
9. A picnic at Daneway Lower Lock (Wharf Lock or Daneway Basin Lower Lock).
10. Mr and Mrs Gleed. Mr George Gleed worked for Smart's at Chalford took the last commercial load of 20 tons of roadstone through the tunnel in May 1911 to Lechlade and returned with a load of timber.
11. By 1967 the garden of the inn had become the car park and Summit Lock has been infilled.
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“Daneway Wharf Lock, commonly known as Summit Lock - from 1905 to 1967,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 18, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/441.