Great Western Coffee Shop

I have travelled to a station and taken a short walk. You will notice that they feature water and boats of some sort.
Can you tell me the name of the nearest station or stations.
Some but not all are in the Coffee shop area. All pictures where taken in 2019. Only answer one each in the first 24 hours please.

1. Bere Ferres - plymothian
(https://i.ibb.co/2ygJTZv/Q1.jpg)
2. Faversham - Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/BZDNV6F/Q2.jpg)
3. Poole - MVR S&T
(https://i.ibb.co/2k7gcfn/Q3.jpg)
4. Looe - Old Original
(https://i.ibb.co/vHWpg1W/Q4.jpg)
5. Ely - Richard Fairhurst
(https://i.ibb.co/K5hjFYc/Q5.jpg)
6. St Pancras lock Regents canal later part of Grand union - PrestburyRoad and Graham
(https://i.ibb.co/585bTK7/Q6.jpg)
7. Ipswich - Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/dJJ212b/Q7.jpg)
8. Kew Bridge - Surrey 455
(https://i.ibb.co/58PhjJv/Q8.jpg)
9. Hebden Bridge - Richard Fairhurst
(https://i.ibb.co/5cNbQCh/Q9.jpg)
10. Banbury - MVR S&T
(https://i.ibb.co/2vGd51S/Q10.jpg)
11. Woolhampton (Midgham Station) - Graham
(https://i.ibb.co/nmNK3xK/Q11.jpg)
12. Salisbury - Cycling Sid and Western Pathfinder
(https://i.ibb.co/61Ydh33/Q12.jpg)

Where are the pictures/clues?

I was thinking the same ,the images are trying to load,but not come through yet.

Right! Easy ones first - 2. is Faversham.

4 - Looe

Yes


Yes

I had problems too but the pictures HAVE now come though.   In case there's an ongoing issue, TonyN has copied me on the pictures and they are at http://www.passenger.chat/4TonyN ... crude index there (for speed) linking to each picture and I will tidy up over next few minutes

EDIT to add ... all images in one page now mirrored at http://www.passenger.chat/4TonyN/all.html

I think 12 is Oxford

6 could be on the Grand Union Canal, with its twin 12-foot-wide locks - the 'track' was doubled at the locks to avoid delays at single locks.  It looks to be towards London with the yellow bricks.

Is 10 Kintbury?

Sorry No

Sorry wrong canal

Sorry no

Regent's Canal, St Pancras Lock.

But ... wasn't the Regents Canal a branch of the Grand Union at one point in its history?


Edit to add from Wikipedia ...
... and it was very much a part of the City of London / Docklands to Birmingham truncates canal and operationally linked to the Grand Union.

Yes true but then some would say that the Grand union was a company rarther than a Canal the main part being the Grand Junction. We need Richard Fairhust to adjudicate on this one.

I think 8 is Maidenhead. Although as I've only been there once, it probably isn't! Just that something about it jogs my memory.

Right River wrong place.

Is 1 Christchurch?
stunning photos, by the way.

8 looks tidal, with the muddy bank and the above-water boat on the far bank.  So given that it's the same river as Maidenhead's, it's below Teddington Lock.

9 is Hebden Bridge on the Rochdale Canal - one of my favourites.


Heh - there really is no right answer on what to call the constituent bits of the GU system.

The Grand Union Canal Company was effectively formed by the Regent's Canal buying the Grand Junction and the 'Warwick' canals. But despite that, people have still continued to call the Paddington-Limehouse bit the Regent's Canal. The "Grand Union" usually describes the Brentford-Birmingham main line and its various branches, though a few people still call it the Grand Junction.

Canal and river names can be confusing, but spare a thought for the publishers of the Nicholsons waterways guides, who recently(ish) issued their Severn, Avon & Birmingham book with a beautiful picture of Pulteney Bridge over the River Avon. It looked great. Shame it was the wrong Avon.

The OS in 1953 called it the Grand Union Canal - From the NLS map site (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.416666666666654&lat=51.53650&lon=-0.12770&layers=170&b=4).

10. The Stroudwater Canal between Stonehouse and Stroud?

Sorry no

No. 8 - is it Richmond?

Getting close

Yes Walked from Mytholmroyd after getting there via Man Vic and Summit Tunnel then back home via Copy Pit.

Sorry no

No Right borough wrong Bridge

The OS has always been rather ornery on canal names. It called the Llangollen and the Montgomery the "Shropshire Union" well into the 90s, long after the post-war names had been widely adopted. Even today it uses the "River Dun Navigation" for a stretch of waterway that everyone calls the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation.

Oh! That was going to be my answer.

How about Kew Bridge?

It?s below Teddington. Look at the mud. Is it Kingston?

Yes its Kew

Right Time for some clues to the remaining pictures

1. On a former southern line in Devon
3. A short boat trip to see some Red squirrels
5. Inland but called an Island
7. Portman road is near the station
10. Nursery rime with a horse and a cross
11. The station is near this picture but the naming of the station is odd
12. Russians like to visit

3. Poole.

Yes

10. Banbury? or a short ish walk away from.

That wasn't exactly a short walk, was it...

I remember Dad telling me that Kew Bridge was built with Kemnay granite - he was brought up on a farm right next to the quarry. Now, Wikipedia says it was made of Cornish granite, so which is it? I though I ought to find out.

"Neutral" newspapers from when it was opened (1903) say mostly that is used both Cornish and Aberdeenshire granite, though the Aberdeen Press & Journal says "nearly all" from Aberdeenshire quarries. Specifically, the arches - what you'd see as the bridge - were in the sparkly silver stone from Kemnay, also used in several major buildings in Aberdeen and in London. One of the first was Holborn Viaduct, and:

It probably wasn't a coincidence that the contractor was a Scot - Easton Gibb, who began his career as a railway engineer. Grace's Guide lists:

And of course the most modern construction methods were used, in case you were wondering. A temporary wooden bridge was built for the road, then the old bridge demolished and new foundations and abutments built inside coffer dams. The heavy materials were moved out and in via a Blondin (cable crane), first used in a quarry at Kemnay and perhaps invented by its owner John Fyfe. All the stones he supplied were precut to shape at the quarry and lowered into place.

And when it was finished, having taken five years from enabling act to naming, for about ?170, 000 split between Surrey and Middlesex, Easton Gibb presented a bill for ?20,000 for extra expenses incurred. Half that was approved initially; I don't know whether he got the rest.

Just to the north where the A423 goes straight and up a hill, and the canal bears right.   ///movie.food.busy on what three words.  Taken a boat past there many times but a long time ago - "Duh - of course" when I saw the clue.

If it is Salisbury I can't place the location.

12. River Nadder Salisbury NR Churchfields.

Mostly from the clue, I wonder if No. 11 is near Woolhampton - close to Midgham Station.

I should have recognised no. 7 as Neptune Quay - though when I was there five years ago I was inside that curved building (Waterfont Building of the University Campus Suffolk), not looking across the marina. But then Ipswich has always been rather a non-place (a bit like like Rreading?).

While everyone calls that Neptune Quay, the owners/promoters call it Neptune Marina. I guess that's meant to sound better than the previous names: Wet Dock and Common Quay. At least the road to the right of Waterfront Building is still called Coprolite Street, which is ... very unusual!

Yes

Yes its Salisbury it would have been a lot easier if I had used another picture I took at the same spot
(https://i.ibb.co/k90RRxf/Salisbury.jpg)

Yes it is this is looking east from near the swing bridge.

If I haden't been last year I would not have recognised it. I was last there 20 years ago when most of this area was derelict docks.

Only 1 and 5 left now

1, The water is the river Tavy

5, The water is the river Great Ouse There is even a railway bridge on a operational line in the picture.

I'm going to take a stab at 1 being Bere Ferrers.

5 is Ely.

Which I really should have recognised as I walked past that spot on my way to work every day for a year!

Yes I alighted at Bere Ferrers and had a look round before going back accross to the Tamar and walking to Bere Alston.

5 is Ely.

Yes.
Having set off from home one day last June with the intention of going to the Isle of Wight. However before I got to Reading someone tipped me off that the first Greater Anglia Class 755 Stadler had entred service that morning, on the Norwich - Cambridge route. So I headed for the Isle of Ely instead. Only to find that the 755 had retired to Crown point about the time I arrived at Cambridge.

No Its better to start from Kew Bridge or Kew Gardens rarther than Maidenhead.

I had actualy started from Richmond that day and walked along the south bank to Hammersmith. Which now presents a problem of course. This walk took place in September 2019 so at the end of the walk I was able to cross the by then pedestrian only Hammersmith bridge and catch the H & C to Paddington. Getting to the south side of Hammersmith bridge from Paddington is now rarther more difficult.

Thanks for all your answers that completes yesterdays Quiz.
I will be back next Wednesday the 23rd