Longdon-on-Tern
Aqueducts
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- June 2010
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- Copyright: visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
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- 1978
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- Rubber Seal at NE end. 1978. This was needed to retain a seal as the aqueduct expanded and contracted.
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- Source was from Arthur Osbourn, March 2012 from his home at Applecroft, Eaton Constantine. Arthur was with the 2nd Wellington Scout Group and he reckons the photo was from c 1947. The trip was from Norbury Junction towards Shrewsbury.
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- From Newspaper article? Copy lent by Mr Jim Thomas
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- This is copyrighted work. Copyright Row17. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
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- Late 1940s or early 1950s
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- Cast iron trough and walkway
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- View from under Longdon Aqueduct August 1985
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- East abutment
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- View from the site of the approach embankment
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- Repairs to Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct 1908
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- Date unknown, probably 1950s
Bridges
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- Bridge repairs at Eyton upon the Weald Moors
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- Mr Jim Thomas by the bridge near the Bucks Head Inn
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- Newspaper cutting showing lift bridge and lock cottage, image includes text with more information
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- published in S&N News Summer 2005
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- Lift bridge near Wappenshall c 1950
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- The deck of the former bridge to the east of Longdon Aqueduct. Feb 1976. Bulldozed embankment in the background.
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- Long Lane Bridge, from W. April 1976. Slide 34/23
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- Long Lane Bridge from the E. April 1976. Slide 34/24
Buildings
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- Mrs Eileen Thomas outside the Lock cottage in the 1950s. Some time after this it became the home of squatters but is now a rather fine dwelling.
Canal
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- The canal, lock, sluice and buildings
Locks
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- Eyton upon the Weald Moors lock c1970s
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- Unknown newspaper source
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- Eyton upper lock c1954
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- Eyton Upper Lock c1954
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- Mr Thomas says that this was a guillotine lock and he was told the top part was taken to a museum in London but doesn’t know how true this is.
Wharfs
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- Long Lane Wharf, looking towards the entrance from inside. April 1976 Slide 34/26
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- Entrance to Long Lane Coal Wharf. April 1976 Slide 34/25
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- (Waterway Images)
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- Possible Longdon on Tern before buildings taken down.
