BuckbyLocks

There are lots of them ib Belgium near Charleroix and on the Roubaix Canal. All hydraulic I think. Cons are that the pistons must move together or the system jams and cannot be easily fixed, but the ones I have encountered have all been very efficient, although Bridge Keeper operated from slightly remote cabins.

Don't remember the Urinal but looks like Gas Street. Birmingham.

I was moored below the top lock for quite some time 30+ years ago.

Top of Curdworth flight.

High flying vehicles have made a mess of the Cast Iron and the buddleia is already causing problems. No one seems to give a monkeys about it. It will probably collapse before anything is done with/to it.

Looks like Curdworth to me.

The upper of Ian Moss' photos looks rather like Beckets Park in Northampton just below the lock.

Looks like Brian Collings in the hold of "Sculptor".

If it is Glascote, I spent some time moored in the disused dry dock then alongside the end wall. What is in this picture, houses and a wooden fence was a factory, (I think Reliant) and I used to park our car there. On the day the wall was to be demolished I got off the boat, took the car keys out of my pocket, dropped them onto my foot and kicked them into the canal! After borrowing my wife's car keys and moving the car to a safer parking space I found the Seasearcher magnet from the engine hole and searched for the keys. Among a million or so welding rod stubs I managed to find them. Must have been late 80s but would have to find the logbook to be certain. The dry dock would have been behind the bush in the right hand corner.

Nebulae was motorised but is currently a working butty again.

I can confirm the boat as being Linda/Victoria, just before it moved back to moor on the Bar when the ATV car park was being developed.

I have been through all 39 pages again and cannot actually find the stop gate originally shown as Mancrop at all, so have no idea where you have put it. In doing my search I have had a rethink about100036E as I think it might be connected with 100053E and 100054E back in England, 1000657 which are on the Rhine near Boppard. 100056E is the Rhine Gorge Traffic Indicator at St Goar. 100063E is the Furth Aqueduct on the Main near Nurnberg. 100065E is the Manpowered Crane at Trier on the Mosel. We think 100067E is the Rhine at Koblenz and 100070E is the other end of the Rhine Gorge control building at Oberwesel. (Umlauts sadly missing in several places!) Back in England, 100657E is Hulme Lock on the Bridgewater and I think 1000658E might be its replacement down to the Ship Canal.

I think this one, (100045E) is on the Main-Donau Canal. Pages 25 - 28 were mainly taken during May 2010 in The Netherlands. Not certain of all the locations as Ian often went off on his own or on a different trip to myself, but, starting at 100764 were taken in The Netherlands. 1000770E was taken by the entrance hall of the Rotterdam Foot Tunnel under the Maas. Splashtours are a Rotterdam feature. 1000771E to 1000773 show the SS Rotterdam, formerly the Holland America ship based in Rotterdam and now moored up permanently as a Hotel and attraction. 1000774 shows the Erasmusbrug, better known as the Swan, across the Maas in Rotterdam. 1000776 shows the Eefde sluis on the Twente Canal, Netherlands, near Enschede. as do 10077E and 10078E. 100783 - 1000787 show the Zutphen Railway bridge which has a lifting section need by hotel ships for clearance, but not by most barges. Switzerland 11 is shown waiting to go through the lifted section. Will have to pause here and look through another page.

As I was with Ian and Joan on some of these trips, I know some of them. 100058E is the junction of the Rhine and Mosel at Koblenz, Taken from the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress opposite. I think 100036E is the Mosel but not certain. 100039E, 40E, 45E and 46E are all on the Main-Donau Canal and the water saving locks. 46E may be Nurnberg Sluis. (I am probably in the picture!) 100049E looks like Rhine, but I cannot remember which castle that is. 100060E is the Linz-Remagen Ferry on the Rhine. 100052E is Germany. 100050E is probably the Rhine 100043E and 44E are near Cologne and the pic labelled Mancrop is a stop/flood gate on a German Canal but I am not sure where this particular one is.

But more or less on the line of a previous waterway. The right hand side building was originally alongside the Whitmore Arm and still in use until the big freeze of 63, when the Museum ceased using coal for the boilers.