I`ve become interested in the fancy barge boards you sometimes see on old houses. It makes a huge improvement to the look of a house if the builder made the effort to source a different design as an embelishment.
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Monday 6 April 2009
Offham chalk pit tramway
This huge chalk pit needed a way of getting the chalk from the pit to the lime kilns to process it. The road, using horse and cart, could not carry enough and so an incline railway was built to take the chalk down to the boats and a wharf made alongside a brand new cut which led to the river Ouse.
This old map shows the cut and the tramway
This is the most detail I could get
Looking towards the pit with the cut in the foreground
This is the most detail I could get
Looking towards the pit with the cut in the foreground
Hamsey toll lock
Hamsey toll lock was the first lock on the Ouse Navigation and the men in charge of the barges would pay the toll here as there was a toll house present. In 1926 Harold Cannings was living in the cottage and told of the horrendous floods that occured there.
This is a view looking north to where the Navigation started. The river curves away to the right and the cut (Mighells cut) runs to the left of the pylon.
Sunday 5 April 2009
Saturday 4 April 2009
Victorian Post Box at Milton Street
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