Waterways & your city in picture. - Page 3

Telfordboy · January 25th, 2009, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gherkin007

(sorry couldn't resist)

Boo! Fake!

That waterway is nowhere near the centre of Telford! I've measured it from the Telford train station:

Let's compare to Shrewsbury in comparison:

You have to walk an incredible seventy times further to get to Telford's nearest waterway than you would have to walk from the centre of Shrewsbury to it's waterway. Telfordboy, you are hereby disqualified from talk of waterways

Silence you

At no point did I claim that they were anywhere near the centre at I don't think the thread required them to be therefore I'm aware of no locational rule breaking so I think I'll stay right here.

If you wanted to be picky you could have debated whether Upper Furnace Pool counts as a waterway or not. Plus its in Coalbrookdale not Ironbridge so your coparison is slightly flawed

Gherkin · January 25th, 2009, 05:03 PM

"Waterways" have to be "ways"... they can't just be a pond somewhere in somebody's garden! This thread's for rivers and canals, neither of which Telford has

Telfordboy · January 25th, 2009, 05:09 PM

Actually it has both, Upper Furnace is a legacy of the industrial rev, involving messing around with the Coal Brook. Its artificial but it still flows. Plus we still have remnants of the old canals, the most obvious bit would be part of the Trench Branch of the Shrewsbury and Newport Canal near Hadley. Get your maps out and take a look plus theres a bit at Blists Hill with a preserved inclined plane.

Oh and besides, the Severn flows within Telford's boundaries so there.

Gherkin · January 25th, 2009, 06:05 PM

Ooh look at you and your old canals and coal brooks...

There's a river near Shrewsbury. Been staring at maps all day but can't quite find it...

I refuse to visit Blists Hill since they declined my summer-job application after I wrote on it "I can do a cracking farmer's accent and always look good dressed up"

Telfordboy · January 25th, 2009, 07:16 PM

I would have hired you just for that.

Gherkin · January 25th, 2009, 07:31 PM

They probably didn't think it was a serious job application, but I was never going to be a serious employee so I don't really care. I got the lifeguard job which involved a key to the pool (ie gherkin's pool parties) so that was a good use of summer

Sandblast · January 25th, 2009, 09:02 PM

Great .... you two are like Morcambe & Wise!!!

***ill tonkso*** · January 25th, 2009, 10:28 PM

Don't even start me on Portsmouth, were a freaking island city!

***ill tonkso*** · January 25th, 2009, 10:31 PM

Ok just for that....

I cant be arsed but just you wait... just you wait.

:finger pyramid of evil contemplation:

Delirium · January 25th, 2009, 10:31 PM

OK we won't.

Gherkin · January 26th, 2009, 12:23 AM

I think this thread's becoming more interesting but I don't really understand what's going on...

Accura4Matalan · January 26th, 2009, 04:19 PM

Something about Portsmouth and farmers.....

***Jonesy55*** · January 26th, 2009, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gherkin007

Built in a loop of the River Severn, Shrewsbury's got some lovely "waterways"

Don't forget Shrewsbury has a canal too! A pretty decrepit one but hopefully it will be restored in the next few years. I sometimes ride my bike along it out of town towards Haughmond Hill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsb...t_Canals_Trust

Gherkin · January 26th, 2009, 04:43 PM

I've never seen that canal in real life! I'd completely forgotten there was one!

Telfordboy · January 26th, 2009, 04:52 PM

Doesn't it go down near the old Flax Mill in Ditherington? I hope they restore it.

yoshef · January 26th, 2009, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonesy55

Don't forget Shrewsbury has a canal too! A pretty decrepit one but hopefully it will be restored in the next few years. I sometimes ride my bike along it out of town towards Haughmond Hill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrewsb...t_Canals_Trust

be careful the black panther doesn't get you!

Gherkin · January 26th, 2009, 07:28 PM

that brings back some memories! Front page of the Shropshire's top newspaper!

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2007/0...-two-students/

I think I started a thread on big cat sightings too...

Suburban Knight · January 26th, 2009, 09:20 PM

The Thames Estuary counts as a waterway for my hometown - if you look carefully you can just about see the other side!

image hosted on flickr

image hosted on flickr

Pompey77 · February 3rd, 2009, 01:25 PM

I think you all need to see a real waterway, one which serves a purpose and has done for centuries, which is always filled with activity and life as opposed to what most here appear to be - dead space which are nice to look at and walk along but serve little other purpose.

Even some of the seemingly busier waterways like the canals around gas street basin in Birmingham have very little actual boat activity on them in my experience. Even the Thames has surprisingly little traffic on it other than tourist boats and the Thames clippers. Essentially in most places waterways are wasted resources which could be much better utilised.

Portsmouth harbour however not only serves as the principle base for most of the Royal Navies surface fleet but also ferries to the continent and the Channel islands, both passenger and car ferries to the Isle of Wight, commercial docks through which 70% of the bananas eaten in Britain are imported along with 10,000 pallets of kiwifruit a year, BAE shipbuilding (previously VT then BVT), a thriving fishing industry and of course a major centre of leisure boating including three of the biggest marinas in the UK alongside a great number of smaller marinas and boat yards.

Queens Harbour Master Portsmouth deal with 117,000 shipping movements yearly and this figure does not include trawlers, pleasure boats or the harbour tour boats etc.

Basically I think the harbour really is the heart of this city whereas in other places (and im thinking of Liverpool, Cardiff, Southampton and even London here) their principle waterways feel more peripheral and less like important functional parts of the city.

heres two fantastic pictures from Jainbow on flickr.

And a few more from www.doverpast.co.uk also on flickr

***ill tonkso*** · February 3rd, 2009, 02:33 PM

Our roof dormer really looks out of place in that last one...
Anyway, you have captured the heart of Portsmouth well, and non pompodians, don't forget we have another harbour on the other side of the city

Connected by in the north by Portscreek, making Portsmouth an island.

January 25th, 2009, 05:09 PM	#43
Telfordboy Fus-Ro-Dah! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Yo' mama! Posts: 10,587 Likes (Received): 6	Actually it has both, Upper Furnace is a legacy of the industrial rev, involving messing around with the Coal Brook. Its artificial but it still flows. Plus we still have remnants of the old canals, the most obvious bit would be part of the Trench Branch of the Shrewsbury and Newport Canal near Hadley. Get your maps out and take a look plus theres a bit at Blists Hill with a preserved inclined plane. Oh and besides, the Severn flows within Telford's boundaries so there. __________________ You may be able to contact me at the Hall of the Wendigo should you really feel the need. http://hallofthewendigo.informe.com/forum/

January 25th, 2009, 07:16 PM	#45
Telfordboy Fus-Ro-Dah! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Yo' mama! Posts: 10,587 Likes (Received): 6	I would have hired you just for that. __________________ You may be able to contact me at the Hall of the Wendigo should you really feel the need. http://hallofthewendigo.informe.com/forum/

January 25th, 2009, 10:28 PM	#48
*ill tonkso* Portsmouths Finest, Maybe Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Portsmouth Posts: 14,091 Likes (Received): 211	Don't even start me on Portsmouth, were a freaking island city! __________________ Official Skyscrapercity 'Support the Shard at London Bridge' Facebook Group! Ill-Tonkso.co.uk - My Portfolio Website

January 25th, 2009, 10:31 PM	#49
*ill tonkso* Portsmouths Finest, Maybe Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Portsmouth Posts: 14,091 Likes (Received): 211	Ok just for that.... I cant be arsed but just you wait... just you wait. :finger pyramid of evil contemplation: __________________ Official Skyscrapercity 'Support the Shard at London Bridge' Facebook Group! Ill-Tonkso.co.uk - My Portfolio Website Last edited by ill tonkso; January 25th, 2009 at 10:34 PM. Reason: EDIT: WHY HAS MY REPLY TO HELIUM APPEARED BEFORE HIM! Doh

January 25th, 2009, 10:31 PM	#50
Delirium Sexy Astronaut Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,921 Likes (Received): 95	OK we won't. __________________ Fierce.

January 25th, 2009, 05:03 PM	#42
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	"Waterways" have to be "ways"... they can't just be a pond somewhere in somebody's garden! This thread's for rivers and canals, neither of which Telford has

January 25th, 2009, 06:05 PM	#44
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	Ooh look at you and your old canals and coal brooks... There's a river near Shrewsbury. Been staring at maps all day but can't quite find it... I refuse to visit Blists Hill since they declined my summer-job application after I wrote on it "I can do a cracking farmer's accent and always look good dressed up"

January 25th, 2009, 07:31 PM	#46
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	They probably didn't think it was a serious job application, but I was never going to be a serious employee so I don't really care. I got the lifeguard job which involved a key to the pool (ie gherkin's pool parties) so that was a good use of summer

January 25th, 2009, 09:02 PM	#47
Sandblast Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: BIRMINGHAM ... in exile in the wilderness of rural Gloucestershire Posts: 2,863 Likes (Received): 2	Great .... you two are like Morcambe & Wise!!!

January 26th, 2009, 12:23 AM	#51
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	I think this thread's becoming more interesting but I don't really understand what's going on...

January 26th, 2009, 04:19 PM	#52
Accura4Matalan Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Preston, England/Colwyn Bay, North Wales Posts: 11,836 Likes (Received): 42	Something about Portsmouth and farmers..... __________________ Preston Projects List Updated 11th September 2010

January 26th, 2009, 04:43 PM	#54
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	I've never seen that canal in real life! I'd completely forgotten there was one!

January 26th, 2009, 04:52 PM	#55
Telfordboy Fus-Ro-Dah! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Yo' mama! Posts: 10,587 Likes (Received): 6	Doesn't it go down near the old Flax Mill in Ditherington? I hope they restore it. __________________ You may be able to contact me at the Hall of the Wendigo should you really feel the need. http://hallofthewendigo.informe.com/forum/

January 26th, 2009, 07:28 PM	#57
Gherkin actual gherkin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Leeds Posts: 13,720 Likes (Received): 150	that brings back some memories! Front page of the Shropshire's top newspaper! http://www.shropshirestar.com/2007/0...-two-students/ I think I started a thread on big cat sightings too...

January 26th, 2009, 09:20 PM	#58
Suburban Knight ßANNED Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leeds! Posts: 3,882 Likes (Received): 22	The Thames Estuary counts as a waterway for my hometown - if you look carefully you can just about see the other side! image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr image hosted on flickr Last edited by Suburban Knight; January 26th, 2009 at 09:33 PM.

February 3rd, 2009, 01:25 PM	#59
Pompey77 Pompodian in Exile Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bristol Posts: 1,632 Likes (Received): 4	I think you all need to see a real waterway, one which serves a purpose and has done for centuries, which is always filled with activity and life as opposed to what most here appear to be - dead space which are nice to look at and walk along but serve little other purpose. Even some of the seemingly busier waterways like the canals around gas street basin in Birmingham have very little actual boat activity on them in my experience. Even the Thames has surprisingly little traffic on it other than tourist boats and the Thames clippers. Essentially in most places waterways are wasted resources which could be much better utilised. Portsmouth harbour however not only serves as the principle base for most of the Royal Navies surface fleet but also ferries to the continent and the Channel islands, both passenger and car ferries to the Isle of Wight, commercial docks through which 70% of the bananas eaten in Britain are imported along with 10,000 pallets of kiwifruit a year, BAE shipbuilding (previously VT then BVT), a thriving fishing industry and of course a major centre of leisure boating including three of the biggest marinas in the UK alongside a great number of smaller marinas and boat yards. Queens Harbour Master Portsmouth deal with 117,000 shipping movements yearly and this figure does not include trawlers, pleasure boats or the harbour tour boats etc. Basically I think the harbour really is the heart of this city whereas in other places (and im thinking of Liverpool, Cardiff, Southampton and even London here) their principle waterways feel more peripheral and less like important functional parts of the city. heres two fantastic pictures from Jainbow on flickr. And a few more from www.doverpast.co.uk also on flickr

February 3rd, 2009, 02:33 PM	#60
*ill tonkso* Portsmouths Finest, Maybe Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Portsmouth Posts: 14,091 Likes (Received): 211	Our roof dormer really looks out of place in that last one... Anyway, you have captured the heart of Portsmouth well, and non pompodians, don't forget we have another harbour on the other side of the city Connected by in the north by Portscreek, making Portsmouth an island. __________________ Official Skyscrapercity 'Support the Shard at London Bridge' Facebook Group! Ill-Tonkso.co.uk - My Portfolio Website

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