I have an 120 year old photograph that shows children on the canal towpath, and just beside them is this stile looking neat and tidy with matching fencing either side.
There were no brambles, nettles or hedges whereas today it's bash and battered with various ugly fencing either side. I just look and think how many people have stepped through here. You will note that they think us walkers are thick and pu yellow arrows to show which way to go. Oh I see it's over the stile and not into the canal water.
See the old photograph in my Extra Photo section, no need to comment on that one, just for reference to this stile.
