070221.Dolmeads, Former Ralph Allen Wharf

February 21, 2007 at 1:55 am | In Architecture, Bath, Bridges, Canals, Chisel Marks, Combe Down, Light and Shadow, River Avon, Waterfront, Widcombe, river, somerset |

Copy of 061216.066.Somset.Bath.WidcombeThis is the former wharf at the base of Combe Down hill between Widcombe and the Dolmeads where Ralph Allen sent his stone to. The locks connect the Kennet and Avon Canal with the River Avon. The river could transport his stone to Bristol and the canal could carry the stone via connections to the Thames. The site is now the Bath Hotel, I believe.
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  1. “The site is not the Bath Hotel, I believe.” Nor is it, oddly enough, the Erie Canal, nor the Seine, nor even Lake Chad…

    These are all very spiffy pictures. I applaud them.

    Comment by JosyC — February 21, 2007 #

  2. i am clapping too

    Comment by pod — February 21, 2007 #

  3. superbe photos, les reflets sont magnifiques. l’ecluse s’est un de mes themes la semaine prochaine.


    superb photographs, the reflections are splendid. the lock is one of my topics the next week.

    Comment by Olivier — February 21, 2007 #

  4. Gorgeous! I have been to Bath, but it was many years ago…I had no idea it closes down so early!

    Comment by Kuanyin — February 23, 2007 #

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