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  • The Cromford canal at Butterley

    Its intriguing to see Trekking Exploration’s (formerly Trekking and Towpaths) walk along the Cromford Canal! So far there have been three videos covering this. First there was the canal from Langley Mill to the Beggarlee diversion, then the Pinxton arm and the local railways, and thirdly the walk up the Golden Valley to the Butterley…

  • Daneway

    The railway tunnel at Sapperton is no doubt famous and modern sleek Class 800s IETs from Paddington to Gloucestershire pass through it daily. There’s a much bigger tunnel through the same hills yet its popularity and awareness depends on where one is coming from. Even in the days before the railways arrived in the Golden…

  • Tis wasn’t Robert Browning’s doing!

    It is often claimed Robert Browning came up with the idea the area he lived in should be known as Little Venice. At no time did he ever claim any notion of this nor did he write anything that indicated this should be the case. So who was it responsible for naming this part of…

  • Thomas Telford in detail (3)

    This is the third part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. The first part of this feature used colour versions of the Rosoman painting located on the left hand side of the work sourced from the Internet with some upscaling involved. Th post depicts the structures on the right hand side of Leonard Rosoman’s…

  • Thomas Telford in detail (2)

    This is the second part of the feature on Thomas Telford’s achievements. Telford was of course one of Britian’s greatest engineers – except he built few railways but mostly roads or canals. Many of his canals in fact supplemented railways built by others. In the first part we looked at Telford’s Wesh achievements namely the…

  • Thomas Telford in detail

    This isn’t some anatomical write-up on the composition of Thomas Telford’s body! Rather its a relatively unknown painting that commemorates his life’s work. There’s barely anything on the internet about this painting thus I deemed it an appropriate move to write a post about that work. How this came about is I didn’t know about…

  • Brindley, Wet Earth Colliery, nr Manchester

    I am writing this because I have seen two of Martin Zero’s videos on the excellent work by James Brindley, which revolves around the construction undertaken in the 1750s to resolve both flooding issues as well as give an abundant working water supply to the mines around the Irwell Valley at Ringley, north of Manchester.…

  • Whatever happened to Brunel's bridge?

    The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at Fort Cumberland in Eastney. Few know its there. It seems the stored remains are not even labelled as Brunel’s bridge. At the time of its dismantling there was every promise it would be stored for a short while and…

  • Toddbrook Reservoir

    The dam at Toddbrook. Source: Twitter By now many will no doubt be aware of the calamity that occurred at Whaley Bridge in August 2019 (this is now three years ago) when much of the picturesque town had to be evacuated because of the danger of the Toddbrook reservoir which looms over the town, failing…

  • The Grand Surrey Canal #2

    In the first instalment of this two part series, I looked at Oxestalls Road bridge, the Timberyard development and Blackhorse bridge, plus the wharves in between and the canal towards Trundleys Road. This second post covers the section north from Oxestalls Road bridge towards Greenland Dock. The picture at the top of page shows the…

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