# 73 Narrowboat Vlog - Old Meets New
2024, Cambia Road Bridge 360
Image credit: RCHS. 1964, Wroughton Wharf buildings.
Image credit: RCHS. 1964, Wroughton Wharf buildings.
Image credit: RCHS. 1964, Wroughton Wharf buildings.
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1978, Wharf Farm Hay Lane
1978, Hay Lane west
1978, Wharf Farm
1978, Hay Lane east
1978, Towards Swindon
1978, Berrywood Bridge to Hay Lane Farm
1978, Berrywood Bridge
1978, Towards M4 from West Leaze
1978, Near Swindon looking south
1978, Near Swindon looking north
1977, M&SWJ Bridge
1977, M&SWJ Bridge
1977, From M&SWJ Bridge
1978, Kingshill Swindon
1978, M&SWJ Bridge
1978, Beneath M&SWJ Bridge
1978, Beneath M&SWJ Bridge
1978, Towards Wootton Bassett from M&SWJ Bridge
1978, Kingshill Swindon
1978, South side of River Ray Aqueduct
1978, North side of River Ray Aqueduct
1978, Towards Kingshill from West Leaze
1978, Kingshill
1978, Kingshill
1978, M&SWJ bridge Kingshill
1978, M&SWJ bridge Kingshill
1978, Work at Kingshill
1978, Kingshill
1978, Work at Kingshill
1978, Work at Kingshill
1979, Kingshill work experience clearance
1979, Kingshill Summer
1979, TWA pipe Kingshill
1979, TWA pipe Kingshill
1979, Kingshill Summer
1979, Kingshill Summer
1980, Kingshill Summer
1977, Swindon looking south
1977, Cambria Road Bridge
1959, Swindon, looking west at York road bridge
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1961, Swindon, looking west at the destruction of York road bridge
1961, Swindon, looking east at York road bridge
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1962, Swindon, looking west at York road bridge
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1960, Swindon, Whale Bridge, Whale Hotel & rear of the Cetus buildings
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1959, Swindon, looking east at Whale bridge, while standing on Queenstown/ Wellington Street Bridge
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1959, Swindon, looking east at Milton Road Bridge
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1959, Swindon, looking north east on top of Skew bridge
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1959, Swindon, looking north at Skew Bridge that carried the M&SWJ railway over the canal
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1960, Swindon, West Leaze, looking north at the River Ray aqueduct
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1959, Swindon, Wroughton Wharf House
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1962, Swindon, looking east of Bushey Leaze/ Badgers occupation bridge site
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1962, Swindon, looking east of Hay Lane crossing
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1962, Swindon, Hay Lane Wharf House
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1959, Swindon, looking west of Hay Lane crossing
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Swindon Middle Wichel Canalside
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Image credit: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery/ Art UK. Artist: G. Puckey.
Butchers shop on Fleet Street looking south west towards Black bridge which is in the top right-hand corner before the farm at the foot of Eastcott hill.
Butchers shop on Fleet Street looking south west towards Black bridge which is in the top right-hand corner before the farm at the foot of Eastcott hill.
Building a canal in the 21st century. We take a look from above at the Wilts & Berks at Wichelstowe
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Easter 1956, Wroughton Wharf buildings.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Easter 1956, Costow bridge.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Whale bridge looking west.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Whale bridge looking west.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Whale bridge looking east.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking north east.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking north east.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking north east.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking south west.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking south west.
Image credit: Courtesy of National Waterways Archive, Canal & River Trust. Summer 1964, Swindon, Milton/ Commercial Road bridge looking south west.
Image credit & Artist: Ken White, c1979
Cambia Road Bridge Mural
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. Artist: Ken White, c1979
Cambia Road Bridge Mural
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Commercial/ Milton Road Bridge
Cruising Dragonfly
Dragonfly Narrow Boat trip
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1913, Drove Road Bridge
South West of Kingshill Bridge
Towpath North East of Kingshill Bridge
Wharf Farm, just south of M4. Canal ran by farm buildings
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library
1957, Golden Lion statue on ground level
Image credit: WBCT Facebook
1908, Golden Lion statue on top of the building on the left
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1904, Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge
Image credit: WBCT Facebook
Note the Golden Lion statue on the roof
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1904, Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge
Image to Video
Image to Video
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge
Image credit: Museum & Art Swindon. Between 1877-1898, a second pedestrian footbridge was added in 1898
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge. Mural on Medgbury Road painted 1976, repainted by Ken in 1983 and then again in 2009
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge. Mural on Medgbury Road painted 1976, repainted by Ken in 1983 and then again in 2009
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1904, Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1950, Location of former Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1910, Kingshill Bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1914, Marlborough Street/ Joseph Street Footbridge
Data credit: Historic England
1986, Grade II listed structure, Marsh Farm Bridge, Image credit Jess Laker
Image credit: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery/ Art UK. 1885, Artist: G. Puckey
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Golden Lion/ Regent Street Bridge
Image credit: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery/ Art UK. Artist: J. Hood. assumed 1910.
Image credit: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery/ Art UK. Artist: J. Hood. assumed 1910.
Swindon - Dragonfly landing stage to Marsh Farm bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1905, Swindon wharf, Superintendants house
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library & The Swindon Society. 1905, Swindon wharf
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. 1905, Swindon wharf, boathouse
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1905, Boat house on the right
Take a Boat Trip With Us! Dragonfly Swindon Boat Rides.
Image credit & Artist: Ken White
Whale Bridge
Image credit: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery/ Art UK. Artist: G. Puckey.
This bridge was originally made of stone before being reconstructed to a flat span steel bridge
Wichelstowe and the Wilts & Berks Canal Sept 2017
Wichelstowe Footbridge
Wichelstowe Landing Stage
Wichelstowe Swindon from the air. New Canal construction planned route.
Dragon Fly landing stage to Skew bridge on a model boat
Data credit: Historic England
1979, Grade II listed building, Wroughton Wharf, Image credit Information Analysis
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1961, Demolition, now Fleming way
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1901-1925, Looking west at York road bridge in the background, note abandoned narrowboat
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. c1961, Demolition, now Fleming way
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. Date unknown, York road bridge
Image credit: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library. Date unknown,
Standing on York road bridge looking east
