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white_hart ([personal profile] white_hart) wrote2021-02-28 06:54 pm
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One bridge, two photos (59/365)

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.

A lift bridge over a canal with ice on each side and a strip of clear water beneath it. Behind the bridge there are trees on the left bank and the stern of a moored boat on the right.


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.

A still canal reflecting a lift bridge, blue sky and trees.


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.