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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 17:16:13 GMT
I have been chatting on a local history Facebook page and am wondering if there is any chance of getting an opinion.
I am probaly wrong and it's nothing and I made it all up. But I have suggested the redbridge sea lock is still there and someone has said it isent.
The redbridge to Andover canal was built first and then came the southampton to Salisbury canal which shared canals from redbridge to Kimbridge. I appreciate places probaly mean nothing to you all as the canal is mostly long filled in.
I have taken some photos and hope I can tap into your great knowledge
Is it possible that this is an old sea lock. It's kind of roughly in the right place although thinking about it I think it's a modern thing and is just an outlet. I need to go down and look at low tide.
The pics will follow as I kept losing the text last time I started a thread and I need to sort out tiny pics.
Annoyingly I have a 1871 of map with most of the route on but can't find it.
Thank you all.
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 17:27:08 GMT
There is also a building built there that could of been a warehouse of some sort making it a dock of some sort but I think it's built later as the main road used to go through there across the old Bridge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 17:31:21 GMT
Looking forward to the photos Have voted "don't be stupid its nothing" but as with all polls on here I can change my vote later once the photos turn up
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 17:38:06 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 17:52:50 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 17:55:58 GMT
I'm not worried about being right or wrong.just to know really. I did walk the Itchen navigation last summer I will post those up at some point they too. There's a lovelly turf lock on it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 18:03:51 GMT
Does look possible.
I'd like to see some quoins where the gates used to be. A circular cutout in the lock wall where the heelpost of the gates would have rotated. There should be 4 if it was a normal lock with 2 pairs of mitred gates.
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 2, 2017 18:05:13 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 18:12:14 GMT
I've had a good rummage before and on today about the canal and only see references to the lock and no actual info
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 18:12:17 GMT
Only thing which puts me off the idea of it being a lock is that the building looks really old and has a large door on the road side so perhaps it was just a small arm where a boat could go in to be unloaded.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 2, 2017 18:39:35 GMT
I wonder how old the building actually is ......... if the canal was abandoned in 1859 it could still be quite old but built after the canal closed
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2017 19:17:04 GMT
Only thing which puts me off the idea of it being a lock is that the building looks really old and has a large door on the road side so perhaps it was just a small arm where a boat could go in to be unloaded. I'm with you. My thoughts are. That bridge is medieval and would make sense for barges to go that under than build a new bridge near it. One website says the lock was left of the bridge by about 80 yards. I will have a look on a dry day. But the goods news is I may of been sort of right. Apparently the building is a canal company warehouse so it might have something to do with the canal after all. Just not what I originally thought. The building caught me eye as soon as I was opposite it. It's kind of hidden when you go over the newer bridge
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 2, 2017 19:51:20 GMT
Local museum? Museum curator? Local industrial archaeologists?
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Post by twbm2 on Feb 2, 2017 20:34:34 GMT
I live nearby so this is interesting for me . Found this after some rooting about www.calmoreshow.org.uk/agestot.htmAs the text says the black line is the canal, which seems to loop away from the river bank in the general direction of Adams Morey if you see what I mean. Your putative lock is just upstream of the bridge. Just spent some time on Google maps satellite view trying to spot signs of a canal bed - best I can do is the footpath to the right of Test Lane maybe?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 20:45:18 GMT
I wonder how old the building actually is ......... if the canal was abandoned in 1859 it could still be quite old but built after the canal closed Good point There is an example of this where Lavender Lock used to be at Rotherhithe on the Thames. The lock has a building over it which is itself quite old, but it is still easy to see that it was once a lock as the quoins and other lock related hardware are still present.
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