Description
A winter's day on a frozen Wilts & Berks canal at Swindon, and two young swans try out their wings. Their wings are a blur as they sweep by, but a bridge across the canal forces them to land. They are two of a brood of seven, of which the other three seem to have flown the nest. The parent mute swans are still swimming in the melting waters, a little way round the bend. The Wilts & Berks canal has its mid-point at Swindon. It links the River Thames at Abingdon (Oxon) with the Kennet & Avon Canal near Melksham (Wilts). Today (2010), the waterway is located in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire only (not Berkshire) since Local Government boundary changes in the 1970s.
