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Mystery photo challenge

A photo of a mystery location on the waterways will be featured in every IWA Bulletin. Send us your answer, as to where you think the photo below is, using the form below.

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This photo shows a derelict looking lock, photographed on 20th September 1972.  The lock, is now restored and the scene now looks rather different, but this is Lock 14 on which canal?  The brick toll house in the centre of the photo might be a clue.

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Previous answer

Hint: A boat narrowly escaped getting stuck in a bridge hole! Can you guess which canal it happened on?

Answer: This photograph was of narrow boat Collingwood stuck in an old bridgehole at Lowsonford on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal.  The photo was taken By Bill Greenhalgh on 18th August 1974.

Correctly guessed by: Jerry Bolter, Ivan Cane, Tony Clayton, Martin Hunt and Marion Pearse.