Anzac16 Posted 19 October , 2009 Share Posted 19 October , 2009 The tower bridge is now long gone but does someone knows the spot where it was? Someone told me that it whas here But was it the excact spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 19 October , 2009 Admin Share Posted 19 October , 2009 This came up a while back but I can't find the thread. I think it was decided those 2 concrete plugs are not in the right place. Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 19 October , 2009 Share Posted 19 October , 2009 Have a read here, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzac16 Posted 20 October , 2009 Author Share Posted 20 October , 2009 Ahhh thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilles Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 Yes it's the same place of "fosse 15" or tower bridge ... gilles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 This is the post-war Tower Bridge, and I suspect those footings (if that is what they are) come from it, not the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 Tower Bridge was a large installation. What is meant by " the exact spot". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilles Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 hello after the war 1 this coalwork was rebuilding in the same place plot i suppose the french engeners pomp the thousand meter cube water .. accross the aquiferewater before the coal .... i am going verification is the same plot .... gilles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 21 October , 2009 Share Posted 21 October , 2009 This came up a while back but I can't find the thread. I think it was decided those 2 concrete plugs are not in the right place. Michelle Surley the concrete plugs cover the shafts ? Why would concrete be poured anywhere else than over the filled shafts ? The post war pit head would not be situated over 'new' shafts. Confused .com......... (prefer the mearcat) Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 22 October , 2009 Share Posted 22 October , 2009 After the war were the original shafts beyond use and the new workings sited close by and new shafts sunk? Or did the new workings incorporate the old shafts which to me seems more logical, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 22 October , 2009 Share Posted 22 October , 2009 I think our friend Gilles, as the man on the spot, would be able to tell us whether the original shafts were damaged during the fighting and had to be resunk post war. In any case, the question in the thread heading needs to be clarified. Tower Bridge was not a spot. It was a very large structure including two sets of winding gear, truck handling etc. It is like asking for the exact spot of Wembley Arena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilles Posted 23 October , 2009 Share Posted 23 October , 2009 hello i confirm after the war the french engeners used the old shafts for the coal ... in the photo it's the same "shafts" ....of tower bridge or fosse 15 gilles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 23 October , 2009 Share Posted 23 October , 2009 hello i confirm after the war the french engeners used the old shafts for the coal ... in the photo it's the same "shafts" ....of tower bridge or fosse 15 gilles Merci Gilles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 October , 2009 Share Posted 23 October , 2009 As you all know my hobby is also to compare maps/aerials/Now images, but - for the twin towers I am puzzled. Here is a 1915 aerial from my humble archive which , according to Guy's 1918 map, should clearly show the twin towers. But it does not. See the relative easy visible/recognizable 2 small houses at the end of the dump? A huge twin tower construction in between both houses would dominate the image, but- there is nothing to be seen, not even rubble. Are we looking at the wrong location of fosse 15? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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