I had a wander along the disused canal near Stroud on what felt like the first sunny day in a long time.This is where the Thames and Severn Canal joins the Stroudwater Navigation.
A short way out from Stroud, passing this gate I could hear the whirr and steady, repetetive motion of machinery and could smell burning coal.
Old woollen mill buildings appear.
Old woollen mill buildings appear.
Two doors and lifting equipment.
Old yellow door.
These buildings are a part of Lodgemore Mill. Lodgemore Mill is one of the few remaining working woollen mills in the cotswolds and these days produces fine woollen cloth for use on billiard tables and tennis balls.
The River Frome runs through the mills and there is also a lake where I spotted this sign. I think I know what it once said....
...I think.
There are other strange things in the water too.
I head back to the canal where someone has amused themselves with the weight limit sign of a little bridge.
Further along the canal it gets a little muddy. There is a brand new swing bridge which somehow I didn't take a picture of. Further on there are the remains of an old lock.
This section of the canal is gradually being restored. The idea is that the restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation and the thames and Severn Canal will link the rivers Severn and Thames for the first time in 70 years.
There has been a lot of recent construction.
And you can see the old and the new.
Muddy footed I head away from the canal and back into the old town.
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