CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Friday, 26 August 2016

Croxley Script

Posting that photo of Chertsey being unloaded at Croxley Mill in 1970 leads me back to the recent trip, and an earlier post, and some wonderful photos sent to me five years ago which I don't think I ever posted... If only I had had a good look at them beforehand, I could have tried to recreate the angles. Anyway, here are three more photos that dg sent me back in 2011, taken I believe, by his dad. They show a pair of Willow Wren boats, Grebe and Wagtail (which the internet - I can't currently lay my hands upon Bread Upon the Waters - leads me to believe were FMC Antelope and Freda) approaching, in, and leaving what is captioned as 'Croxley' lock - formally called, at least now it seems, Common Moor.


Aren't they fabulous?


And here are Chertsey and Renfrew in the same lock on July 30th



This is the nearest to a direct comparison, with the middle one of dg's pictures.




Surprisingly, very little seems to have changed - other than a bloody great paper mill having disappeared.
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2 comments:

  1. Llosgi30 August 2016 at 07:02

    Love those old photos!

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  2. Sarah30 August 2016 at 20:57

    It's just been pointed out to me on CWF (where admittedly the pics are a lot bigger) that it's a different pair in the first photo. Obvious once you know but I was paying far more attention to the close ups.

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