On 22 Dec 2010, at 08:01, eng-wiltshire-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> > Subject: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] The Round House, Inglesham Lock, Thames & > Severn Canal > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Earlier this month I mentioned the ancient Inglesham Church. A short > distance downstream from Inglesham Church is the junction of the disused > Thames & Severn Canal with the River Thames. Inglesham Lock was at the > entrance to the canal and the picturesque Round House was once the lock > house. The canal was constructed between 1783 and 1789 and the first boat > passed from the Thames & Severn Canal into the Thames at Lechlade, on > 19th. November 1789, with great festivity. > > The distinctive Round House at Inglesham Lock is the one of five similar > buildings along the Thames & Severn Canal. They were used as living > accommodation for lengthsmen or maintenance men. > > I have an old postcard of Inglesham Lock, which was postally used in 1916. > The sender, staying at the New Inn, Lechlade, wrote, ?All I can say is you > must come ? everything perfect.? > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah When I was a boy, a long time ago, we used to swim there in the summer. Favourite sport was to jump off the bridge as a boat went underneath. Or try to surprise a swan! We also used to jump off the Halfpenny bridge in Lechlade. Favourite trick there was to wait for a car to get to the middle of the bridge and then shriek and fall backwards. Rgds Michael OPC Cricklade St Sampson & Baldhu

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:12:52 -0000, Michael J McCormick <michael@medeschole1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Michael > OPC Cricklade St Sampson & Baldhu Hi Michael, Cricklade St Sampson caught my eye and I immediately thought 'cat'. This was because a few years ago my husband and I visited St Sampson's Church in Cricklade and saw the cat who lived in the church. I put "Cricklade""Church cat" into Google and came up with some references including the following illustrated page, which features a stone carving of a green man of the cat-head type and also mentions the church cat, an ex-stray cat: http://people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/greenman/Bank/Cricklade.htm Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Josephine, if you drop off the list, I will have to come over the water and pull you back <VBG>, this is a great site! Eliz On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Josephine Jeremiah <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:12:52 -0000, Michael J McCormick > <michael@medeschole1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> Michael > >> OPC Cricklade St Sampson & Baldhu > > Hi Michael, > > Cricklade St Sampson caught my eye and I immediately thought 'cat'. This > was because a few years ago my husband and I visited St Sampson's Church > in Cricklade and saw the cat who lived in the church. > > I put "Cricklade""Church cat" into Google and came up with some references > including the following illustrated page, which features a stone carving > of a green man of the cat-head type and also mentions the church cat, an > ex-stray cat: > > http://people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/greenman/Bank/Cricklade.htm > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:11:34 -0000, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> wrote: > Josephine, if you drop off the list, I will have to come over the > water and pull you back <VBG>, this is a great site! Hi Eliz and Listers, I'll be taking a reading break in the New Year as I have so many books, which I want to read, including the Wiltshire ones I've discovered recently since joining the Eng-Wiltshire list. For instance, I have been dipping into 'Bevis: the story of a boy' (1882), which was written by Richard Jefferies. The background of the novel is said to resemble a farm by Coate Water, Swindon, where the author lived as a child. This book is a sequel to 'Wood Magic' (1881). Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:12:52 -0000, Michael J McCormick <michael@medeschole1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > When I was a boy, a long time ago, we used to swim there in the summer. > Favourite sport was to jump off the bridge as a boat went underneath. Hi Michael, I've just found a variety of old pictures of the Round House and Inglesham Lock, which may be of interest to you and to other list members interested in the area or in Wiltshire waterways: http://thames.me.uk/s02290.htm There's even one of the bridge across the Thames, near the Round House, which you may recognize. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com