The Oxford Canal and locks looking north at Napton on the Hill. Three children are on the towpath, 1910s.
Reference PH352/128/15
The Oxford Canal, near Napton on the Hill; with small canal cruiser and small maintenance boat. 1960s.
Reference PH599-462.
This view of the canal looking North, with the derelict Napton Windmill on the skyline, is almost identical to PH352/128/15 and PH599/462.
Reference PH1239/6/13
This view, also looking North, shows the Folly Lane brick bridge, which did not exist in the photograph PH352/128/15.
Reference PH1239/6/14.
The Oxford Canal at Napton, view from the north. 1930s.
Reference PH352/128/29.
This was taken from the hill above the canal looking South. It was photographed in almost exactly the same place as PH352/128/29.
Reference PH1239/6/15
As a Warwickshire County Record Office volunteer, I have been sorting through and then cataloguing the late Roger Smith’s collection of photographs (PH1239) – transparencies mostly of Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford on Avon, South Warwickshire villages and some of the water ways. When checking details of transparencies relating to the Oxford Canal at Napton I discovered that earlier photographs existed, some of exactly the same views, already held by the record office.
There are just a few of the many thousands of interesting photographs to be found in the record office.
Comments
Hello. I do not think the caption to photo Reference PH1239/6/14. is accurate. It refers to photo Reference PH352/128/15 as evidence that the Folly brick built bridge was not there. The photos in fact show different locks in the foreground and the bridge is not visible in the distance in the older photo. I am sure the bridge was built at the same time as the canal c 1800 and it certainly looks that date. The bridge is marked on a map of 1881 and the bridge is numbered in sequence with the others either side.
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