‘At the top, it looks scary’: Bingley celebrates Five Rise Locks restoration

[David Mack]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/24/bingley-five-rise-locks-restoration-yorkshire-canal

[Tracy D'arth]

Interesting photo.

 

Pairs of staff walking or standing around, not a single "bent back at work" person to be seen. No wonder it takes longer to do the repairs than it did to build in the first place.  Figuratively speaking.

[Guest]

So does this mean the L&L is currently closed in between two stoppages, the one at Gargrave and this one at Bingley?

[matty40s]

Ah yes, all that fencing and scaffolding appeared by magic overnight.

Looks to me like 2 visiting managers stopping 2 guys working....perhaps to find out how it's going, or are there any problems, or do they need any additional kit/supplies, or is it Tea Break time. 

 

[TheBiscuits]

59 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

So does this mean the L&L is currently closed in between two stoppages, the one at Gargrave and this one at Bingley?

 

Don't forget the breach at Rishton and Wigan Flight is shut too.

 

At least Bingley and Wigan are planned stoppages!

[MtB]

4 hours ago, matty40s said:

Ah yes, all that fencing and scaffolding appeared by magic overnight.

Looks to me like 2 visiting managers stopping 2 guys working....perhaps to find out how it's going, or are there any problems, or do they need any additional kit/supplies, or is it Tea Break time. 

 

 

 

When I used to fit kitchens, we used to dislike the kitchen shop owner turning up on site as was his habit, to find out "how it's going, or are there any problems, or do we need any additional kit/supplies". We were very well organised and his presence just meant no work would get done for an hour or two while he poked around asking strings of damned-fool questions, or stood in the middle of the kitchen discussing stuff with the customer and demanding we stopped interrupting with our noise....

 

 

 

 

[matty40s]

We always find that customers who wish to continue long conversations about the weather, how far they cruised for the last 10 years and how much they spent on the boat can be quickly brought to leave by letting them known that they are paying for our listening time as part of the job.😉

Edited February 25, 2022 by matty40s

[MartinC]

I wonder if they are going to do anything about the Elsan location at the top. I seem to recall having to carry full cassettes past people drinking their coffee in the sunshine.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, MartinC said:

I wonder if they are going to do anything about the Elsan location at the top. I seem to recall having to carry full cassettes past people drinking their coffee in the sunshine.

 

I doubt it, that would require a major re-config of the buildings.

[jpcdriver]

3 minutes ago, MartinC said:

I wonder if they are going to do anything about the Elsan location at the top. I seem to recall having to carry full cassettes past people drinking their coffee in the sunshine.

And the problem is?

[jonathanA]

1 hour ago, jpcdriver said:

And the problem is?

That bloody coffee smells lovely 😍...

[Alan de Enfield]

Bingley Five Rise Locks: New gates fitted on UK's steepest lock flight - BBC News

 

 

 

 

Engineers are putting the finishing touches to a major restoration of the UK's steepest lock flight on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal.

Repairs to the Grade I listed Bingley Five Rise Locks have involved replacing one of Britain's tallest set of lock gates at the West Yorkshire landmark.

It is part of a £55m programme of works by the Canal & River Trust on waterways across England and Wales.

The trust said the Bingley lock was one of the "wonders of the waterways".

A lock staircase is where the locks open directly from one to another, with the top gate of one forming the bottom gate of the next.