Building a water supply to the canal

After finishing teaching at the rehab, I walked home along the Cotswold canal, which is being restored, section by section. Until late 2011, when I changed my working patterns, I walked this route at least once a week, and my canal walk of last Monday, from Stroud to Brimscombe, made me realise how much I'd missed these watery places.

This is the area known as Ham Mill (old mill not visible in shot) where a peaceful smallholding, complete with small white goat/sheep, is now sharing the space, cheek by jowl, with construction caravans and this elephant's trunk arrangement, which I think is a pipe that will bring water to the canal. Ham Mill lock is under reconstruction, and its neighbour, Griffin Mill lock, has new gates already in place.
I have another blipshot of this area from some years ago, I'll look for the link.

Above these buildings runs the railway, with a freight train dawdling at a signal as I searched for a shot. Below the towpath runs the river Frome (not the one in Somerset!). Fifty yards below that, with only a field of sheep and a few factory buildings in between, lorries thunder night and day along the A419 London road.