by rebbonk » Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:35 pm
I think there's still a field at the back of the old bakery (if we are talking about the same bakery). I have an idea that it might belong to the Hansons.
I'm not particularly conversant with that stretch of canal, but there is still a basin on Swan Lane (Stoke) almost opposite where the old dairy was. I had a mate moor up there for the winter a few years back.
I seem to remember that the canal is on artificial banking in places between Swan Lane and Bishopsgate. I lived in Freehold St for a while and remember it at the bottom of the road, and of course, it burst its banks in the 70s causing quite a lot of mess to the lower regions.
Of course it'll fit; you just need a bigger hammer.