--- In [email protected], Bruce Napier <br...@...> wrote: > > Halifax are running ads in today's paper with a canal and two or three > narrowboats (depending on which version) heavily featured. > > It looks like the southern GU to me, but I haven't managed a firm > identification. > > Anyone else any ideas. > It was in 'Metro' this morning. Unfortunately I threw my copy away when I got off the train, but not before I'd had a good look at it and decided that the photo has been seriously doctored. Obviously the big letters on top of the boat spelling Halifax (or whatever) had been added, as had the oddly-sized chap leaning out of the side hatch, but I reckon the background had been played with too. The bridge was odd: the canal hardly narrowed at all, and the bridge span was much bigger than normal for a fairly traditional shaped structure, but it didn't have a towpath under it - even though there was one clearly visible heading towards it on the left of the canal. Also the bridge (and in particular the vegetation on it) was absolutely symmetrical.
But you're right about it having a southern GU feel - I think the concrete piling on the right is very GU. (not the 1930s stuff, the more recent concrete with steel railway line type waling. Martin L
