Around Whitehall Bridge
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Around Whitehall Bridge
Description
Photographs L - R, T - B:
1. This very early view was taken below Whitehall bridge looking towards Whitehall Lower Lock c. 1885. Some distance below the bridge the canal has an almost semi-circular curve before a short reverse curve brings it to the lower lock.
2. Photographed around 1905, Whitehall bridge is a brick and stone bridge and on this west-facing side of the picture there is a date stone carved 'W.D. 1784'.
The bridge carried various tracks that converged here through the woods mostly down from Frampton Mansell and then up through Trillis Woods towards Far Oakridge.
Beyond this bridge to the east it was chosen to abandon the canal in 1927, while the canal to the west was not finally abandoned until 1933
3. Whitehall bridge c. 1910. There is enough water in the canal bed for the leisure use of a canoe even though the picture was probably taken in high summer when water would have been low.
4. From before 1915, a father enjoys himself in the canoe, mother and child watch from the towpath as the photograph is taken from the bridge looking East. The banks show the water to be low in this pound but it is probably high summer. It is a nostalgic scene which, with effort, could again become reality.
5. 1947 looking east towards Daneway. The canal has been abandoned for twenty years but the bridge is still in very good condition and is crossed by the track that comes down from the Daneway and Frampton Mansell on the right and then winds its way up the bank on the left through Siccaridge Woods and back towards the Daneway.
1. This very early view was taken below Whitehall bridge looking towards Whitehall Lower Lock c. 1885. Some distance below the bridge the canal has an almost semi-circular curve before a short reverse curve brings it to the lower lock.
2. Photographed around 1905, Whitehall bridge is a brick and stone bridge and on this west-facing side of the picture there is a date stone carved 'W.D. 1784'.
The bridge carried various tracks that converged here through the woods mostly down from Frampton Mansell and then up through Trillis Woods towards Far Oakridge.
Beyond this bridge to the east it was chosen to abandon the canal in 1927, while the canal to the west was not finally abandoned until 1933
3. Whitehall bridge c. 1910. There is enough water in the canal bed for the leisure use of a canoe even though the picture was probably taken in high summer when water would have been low.
4. From before 1915, a father enjoys himself in the canoe, mother and child watch from the towpath as the photograph is taken from the bridge looking East. The banks show the water to be low in this pound but it is probably high summer. It is a nostalgic scene which, with effort, could again become reality.
5. 1947 looking east towards Daneway. The canal has been abandoned for twenty years but the bridge is still in very good condition and is crossed by the track that comes down from the Daneway and Frampton Mansell on the right and then winds its way up the bank on the left through Siccaridge Woods and back towards the Daneway.
6. Whitehall Bridge c. 1950 against the backdrop of the 'Golden Valley'.
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“Around Whitehall Bridge,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 5, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/446.