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Ascent of Man - which lock?


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I'm very much enjoying the Ascent of Man, a TV series from 1973 narrated (and I think compiled by) Jacob Bronowski. One of the wonders of video is one can see a documentary series as if it were new, when actually it is 47 years old and the presenter died 46 years ago...

 

However, I digress, at the start of episode 8 "The drive for power" JB is by a lock. There are many scenes in this episode on the Llangollen canal, Horseshoe falls, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Chirk (or possibly Whitehouses) Tunnel, but the lock is clearly not there. 

 

Pretty certain it's Grand Union, the lock is empty but there looks to be a lot of freeboard when it is full, judging by the tide mark. My first thoughts were River Brent section but the towpath is the wrong side and I don't think any of those have a bridge at the tail. Anyone know which one it is?

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Stockers lock. 

Lock 82 GU canal Rickmansworth. 

 

Yes the section above it is subject to river levels the Chess and the Gade and the Colne all get friendly above there. 

 

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The location is a useful one for canal history and the navvies that built the waterways.

 

Grade II listing all over the place

 

Stockers Lock

Grade II

Lock No. 82 on the Grand Union Canal. Early C19. Brick walls with ashlar coping. Timber lock gates. Bollards, some timber, some iron, probably cast 1896 by the London and Lancashire Engineering Co.

Accommodation bridge carrying Stockers Farm Road over the Grand Union Canal to Stockers House, Stockers Farm Road (q.v.). Early C19. Mixed brick. Cambered humpback over a single round arch. Whitewashed below diagonally set courses to stone coped parapets. Splayed to rounded end piers. 

 

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