One bridge, two photos (59/365)

[white_hart]

Because some of you asked for more posts about canals, I thought I'd share these two photos of the lift bridge at Thrupp, taken just over two weeks apart.

11 February, with a thick frost and ice covering most of the surface of the water.



26 February, when it was still only just above freezing and there had been a thick frost on the fields I'd just walked through, but the water was ice-free and reflecting glorious sunshine.



Thrupp is about two miles from my house along the canal. It's a tiny place, basically a farm, a row of pretty cottages, a tearoom and a pub, but there's also a boatyard and a canoe hire place, as well as a wide stretch of canal with lots of residential moorings along both sides, so it's one of those places which is a familiar name to boaters despite its diminutive size. The lift bridge is one of many on the Oxford canal, though very few carry regular vehicle traffic as this one does.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Nice!

Well, you know me and bridges! :o)

[danieldwilliam]

I've only just realised that you are talking about a different Thrupp than the one I thought you were talking about and everything* now makes more sense.

*for a given value of everything.

[white_hart]

Thrupp is just a variant of thorp, so I suspect there are lots of Thrupps around!

[danieldwilliam]

As soon as you said that I thought, "Jings, I bet there are hunners" but according to Google Maps, not so many after all.

Anyhow, main issue causing my misunderstanding is that I'd massively underestimated the distances involved.

[sartorias]

Spo pretty!