Taking my camera walkies. Picspam 1

[linda_joyce]

Today I took my camera for a walk, mostly to take photos of things I want to paint but I also took a few(about 30) of bits of my homeland that that you may be interested in. First the Crumlin arm of the Monmouth and Brecon canal, it was opened in 1796.


This is the end of the navigable part.



As you can see it is still used by pleasure boats even though it closed for commerce in 1944. This boat takes passengers a most weekends in the summer, she’s called the Jemima Morris, to raise funds for the renovation
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Here is the old warf, it probably was for delivering beer to the two pubs opposite it on the main road.



This marks the end of possible reconstruction for the canal, the rest of it is now the valley By pass.

Comments

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures! I'm tempted to try to draw them myself! If I had time & you weren't planning to use them as references yourself. :^)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Be my guest, even if I do use them myself your interpretation will indoubtably be different from mine. They might one day be in cyberspace together but that won't matter.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I don't know that I'll ever *do* it, but in my imagination I've already done a watercolor & colored pencil drawing of the first one, framed it, and hung it on the wall.

My imagination works much faster than the rest of me.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

My imagination is working overtime too, only it's fixated on the Twmp on the next entry. And I've got to learn to paint first.

[inyadreems.livejournal.com]

It's great that they're renovating the old canal networks - there's a lot of that going on around here. I wish they'd put some of the freight that's on the roads back on the canals. Lovely photos. Lovely walk.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

So do I, one canal barge with a dummy in tow could take half a dozen lorries of the roads.

[javahound07.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing your pictures. :) I love the last two, the canal warf is something you don't see here very... dare I say UK'ish to a Welsh woman ;)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That's fine, so would British be, it's when someone uses English to denote the whole of the British Isles that i get cranky.

[javahound07.livejournal.com]

:D
I understand, my oh so very Scottish grandfather is always quick to point out the difference between Scotland and England. I'm sure some Welsh people like to make that distinction as well.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

This reminds me, I never put my canal restoration pics up.

Nice picspam. And I like the statue.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

You must if only for me. It's a very practical statue. the right hand side is a comfy seat.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Nice pics. Interesting and artistic seat.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And comfortable too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

How beautiful! I wish we had canals.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

It's the top end of the canal we walked when you were over here, they wre just starting the renovations then and have taken all these years to get up to the top, only 10 miles.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wondered if it was that one! :-D

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Birmingham is supposed to have more canals than Venice, and they've been cleaning them up.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

They did lovely restoration work on our local canal but now you can't go there because of the industrial park encroachment, the towpath is no longer navigable.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

the Council is insane allowing that. That won't happen here, the canal is built on a ledge a short way up the mountains. To the landward side of the tow path there is enough room for a single railway track, now long defunct then the land drops almost vertically for a distance of about 4 miles down valley and where the land levels off there are house and roads. We are lucky.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they were allowed to close towpaths where the canal is navigable.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I thought it wasn't allowed either but they have a cement works that juts out onto it. Needless to say the building of the industrial units and the run off from the cement works has also undone the efforts they put in to reclaim and regreen the canal.
The trouble is the area is classed as a "brown field site" as it used to be a pit.