teddington_lock
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Hi all ,
Long story short , a friend of mine has found some of his fathers old photos and is trying to find out where they were taken. He thinks it may be the upper reaches of the Thames somewhere. Can anyone help ?
I haven't shrunk the photos , so as not to lose any detail . Apologies for the size.
From my friend :-
For information, my father and late uncle had between them gathered a load of 35mm slides
- over the last couple of years (as the slides were rapidly deteriorating) I scanned and saved to DVD etc.
The only thing I can say for sure is that these pictures are at least 35 years old, however that doesn't mean they aren't for example 55 years old, hence the people (unknown) to
try and date the clothing.
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Chris_d
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Not sure it is the Thames, it looks very Thames like but the Hill, Church and bend in the river doesn't look like any bit of the Thames I can place 
Dying to know where it is now.
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teddington_lock
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Could be anywhere , we came to the conclusion that it must be an inland waterway , as there appears to be no tidal influence on the banks ...
Somewhere in oxfordshire has been suggested ...
Here is a link to the original thread if anyone is interested.
http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=53409
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sarabande
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Just some thoughts:
It's late summer about 3pm, and the top photo is taken looking almost due North from the SW bank of the river. The flow of the stream seems to be L to R, based on the motor boat being moored bows upstream. The soil looks like glacial loess, rather than Thames gravel/sand.
The river is a fairly large one, with slow non-tidal flow, so a long valley.
I'd be tempted to say the River Avon above Gloucester, which might tie in with the hills in the distance being the Cotswolds.
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teddington_lock
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Thank you , i shall pass on the information.
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halcyon
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How about the Severn around Tewksbury, that church in the background keeps ringing bells as the one near the M5 as you aproach the M50. I used to love that church, it ment I was 3 hours from Cornwall, and only 30 minutes from Sealine.
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PhotoDog
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I thought the same thing as soon as I saw the pic..... its that stretch just south of the Streasham services.....
In fact, I bet that is shot from Twynning Green looking NE towards Bredon........
The M5 now cuts left to right across the frame in the middle distance.....
In fact, Ill go a bit farther than that and say that the top pic is shot from the terrace of the Fleet Inn which is on the edge of the river there.... if you look at that wall its definetly the wall that leads down from the pub onto the road, there is now a bit more of a formal beer garden between the terrace the road in front of the river, but its the same stepped wall.
Shot from here... check out the wall above the beer garden.....
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lenseman
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I don't think you will find it to be the Fleet Inn for a number of reasons:
1) On the original picture, there is no road between the wall and the river.
2) The river bends very sharply in the original and in the background of the original, it suggests that the river bends away to the left alongside what looks to be a row of bathing huts which are probably caravans. The river at Fleet Inn does not do this return.
3) The river at the Fleet Inn is quite a bit wider than in the original picture.
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PhotoDog
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Quote:
On the original picture, there is no road between the wall and the river.
look at the top old pic.... see the garden gate ..... see the small road behind the gate..... 
Go to google earth and compare......
If that aint shot from the terrace at the fleet Inn, Ill eat my shorts...
Look very carefully at the gate in the original picture at the bottom of the path in the garden.... then look very carefully at gate in the pic from google..... its the same metal gate.
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teddington_lock
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Chaps , we just found this old photo , taken from the Fleet Inn ...
I think the original picture was shot from just on the left ( out of shot ) , the hollyhocks are in the right place , even the gate to the garden is right , the river curves away ..
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