----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Spot the waterway . . . .
> On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:54 PM [GMT+1=CET], > Captain Beeky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2, Jan 2007, at 18:42, Captain Beeky wrote: >> >>> Mrs B is reading "The Watchman" by Ian Rankin which features a canal >>> on the cover. See link to this edition below (believed out of print). >>> >>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/075286033X/ref=sib_dp_pt/026-5456258 >>> -5911669#reader-link >> >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watchman-Ian-Rankin/dp/075286033X >> >> Sorry bad link, try the above, from where you can zoom into the book >> cover. >> >> Looks a bit like the Limehouse Cut which I enjoyed briefly on TNC duty >> last spring. > Mike suggested > Don't think so. I've never known the Limehouse Cut as badly overgrown on > the towpath side as shown here. I'd expect a canal in an Ian Ranking book > to > be in Scotland - almost certainly the Union Canal. But that doesn't > mean > the publisher's photographer woud necessarily photograph the correct > canal. > It could be one of the bridges on the Union canal in Edinburgh walking westwards. I think it is fairly near Edinburgh Quay but I can't say for sure which bridge is is. Ann
