On 12 May 2010 11:30, martinludgate <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > --- 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. >
Try the online edition of today's Metro here. It's in there on page 11. By the looks of it, very few bits of it haven't been GIMP'ed (open source advocate, none of your steenkin' Photoshop here!) http://e-edition.metro.co.uk/2010/05/12/ I'm not entirely certain, but I don't think the reflection matches either... you can't see the little man out of the side hatch. At least it looks like the boat is licenced so that's something... -- David Morris blog: http://www.brassedoff.net/wp
