I didn’t manage to get a picture of the lock-keepers office nor of the bridge above..but soon the Thames came into view!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooBy the way, I believe there was filming here a couple of days ago..for something called “Hustle”? .It’s opposite the Brewery Tap pub remember..and is used by Artists..quite separate from those on Johnston Island.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooWhen you leave that final lock (Thames Lock) views like these appear. Nigel is an expert on these places.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAnd finally Kew Palace comes into view (picture taken during Lots Ait trip)OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAt this point my camera became full..and so I was unable to take pictures of the meadowlands around Syon Park. But Nigel has published some.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooEnd of Fridays trip up and down the Canal…just that special escursion behind The Island Development to do.
Jim Lawes ● 6889d4 Comments
The warehouses at the top of Commerce Road. These were taken from the Island ashore in greyer days.View coming from behind the IslandSame with pontoon moored narrowboats near northern tip.And just to show how they were constructed, this advert is from 1937 showing one of the now demolished covered docks being built on the Island where the new flats now stand:It’s interesting to see that the remaining warehouses, which should be kept for their original purpose to meet the needs of moving more freight back onto water, were built nearly 30 years later in identical fashion. Must have worked!
Nigel Moore ● 6887d
Jim Lawes ● 6889d
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Musgrave+Road,+Hounslow,+Greater+London,+TW7,+UK&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=51.471206,-0.320288&spn=0.00156,0.005407&t=h&iwloc=A
So I took some of those URL's from the FIH gallery of Canal pictures. Seems I need the urls attached to the pictures in the ain index.