Droitwich Barge

This is a superb canal running from Vines Park, near the centre of Droitwich, through the leafy suburbs and out into rural Worcestershire. There is a short reminder that modern civilisation is not far away when the canal passes under the A449 in a tunnel about 100yds long, and then it’s back to the rural setting in the run down to the junction with the River Severn at Hawford. The whole canal is 6 miles in length and is now fully restored and working well.

Confusingly, BW has renumbered the locks to run from 1 to 8 West to East, whereas the originals were numbered 1 to 8 from East to West. So Ladywood Lock is now number 8 (was 1) and Hawford bottom locjk is now number 1 (was 8). MY Geo projects map has the original numbering on and I’m not sure whether there has been a new version published with the changes by Heron Maps (I’m investigating).

Here is a slideshow of photos going from East to West and below my Google map of the canal with the route drawn in blue.

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#1 | Written by Pete Smythe about 13 years ago. Reply

Hi – I can’t get your slideshow to run – is there a problem? By the way, I’ve shedloads of digital camera photos from when the barge canal was being restored; would anyone be interested in copies? Cheers, Pete
- #2 | Written by gitot.1342 about 13 years ago. Reply
  
  Hi Pete, thanks for your comment which I’m sure will help others.
  
  Firstly,the slideshows on canalscene.com run under Adobe flash Player. So they won’t run with apple products – ipad and iphone – because apple don’t support the Flash Player.
  (Soon, the software I use for creating these will be able to produce HTML5 slideshows which will – I will then need to recreate them all!!)
  
  Secondly, if you’re not using apple, you may have a pop-up blocker set in your browser – a little message should “pop up” at the top telling you that a pop-up has been blocked and normally it will ask you to click on something to allow the pop-up. This default can probably be changed in the Settings or Options of your Browser, if you wish.
  
  Thirdly, when you click on the slideshow you may get a message saying you need to download Adobe Flash Player – you should follow the instructions for this – the Flash Player is used very widely and is harmless. (This is likely to happen with the Firefox browser).
  
  I have just tested the slideshow on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers and all work.
  
  Hope this Helps,
  Keep visiting the site!
  Geoff

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Droitwich Barge

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