The Thames and Severn canal's structural heritage

I picked up a wider angled lens this afternoon from Dave.C., which he has kindly lent to me for my weekend photography task for the Stroud Preservation Trust. Then I joined Helena and our visitors P. and M., who've come up to stay for twenty-four hours, to walk along the canal together before heading through the woods to the waterfall below The Heavens.

We walked down between the old canal and the river Frome so that I could take some test shots of the remaining buildings at Arundell Mill, which the Trust restored in the early 1990s. The we walked back to Bowbridge Lock before heading the opposite way up the canal. By the ruined lock, which is due to be restored by the Canal Project next year, we showed P. and M. the old overflow from the lock which was directed into this large round vertical pipe to flow round the lock and into the canal on the other lower side of the lock system.

I liked the colours of the rusting paintwork and the mandala-like shapes of the ironwork designed to keep anyone or thing from falling into the drain.

After the walk, it was off home to settle in, cook supper and catch up sitting in front of the first coal fire of the autumn..