During our hunting around for old photographic and postcard views of the area we live in a friend showed us these two postcards in her collection. They both show the Middle Level Main Drain and interestingly her family owned the houseboat nearest the bridge in the lower black and white photograph.
The photograph at the top was taken from the road bridge at Three Holes looking roughly north east and it shows the Middle Level before World War Two. Whenever I look at photographs like these I always wonder what the pike and perch fishing would have been like in those days. I suppose that response is just another version of the fisherman's constant need and curiosity requiring them to always look over bridges, any bridges. Even bridges in old photographs.
In the middle photograph you can just see, behind the bridge, Pophams Eau forking to the right and the Sixteen Foot Drain running away to the left.
So, just to even things out here's yesterday's view shown in the photograph at the top, it was taken while we were on the way to the supervets near Newmarket to collect Barney.Why couldn't the weather have been like that on Tuesday?
John changes in areas where we live are sometimes subtle. And sometimes they are drastic. The town I live in was once all dairy land, and now there is only one left.
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ReplyDeleteAlan, Town centres tend to be sudden but in the countryside things seem to be more gradual. Looking at some of the photographs you do wonder though. Loved the split cane by the way. What a gift. Regards, John