Up and Down Locks

[fender]

Ah, I am clearly misinformed.

 

It was my understanding that there had been a time in the past where all three sides were open (and that at the time the lapworth link was a stop lock).

 

Can we have a potted history????

 

I've seen a quite detailed history somewhere (was it on the information boards at Kingswood Junction? as I've never read Alan Faulker's book) after digging around the the best I can find (for now) is this old canals-list discussion:

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/canals-list@ya...m/msg13469.html

 

and

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/canals-list@ya...m/msg13466.html

[mayalld]

I've seen a quite detailed history somewhere (was it on the information boards at Kingswood Junction? as I've never read Alan Faulker's book) after digging around the the best I can find (for now) is this old canals-list discussion:

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/canals-list@ya...m/msg13469.html

 

and

 

http://www.mail-archive.com/canals-list@ya...m/msg13466.html

 

Thanks, it all seems clear now!

[Tiny]

That Stratford/GU link is a fascinating bit of inter company lawyers at dawn history. To be connected to the then Warwick and Birmingham canal the Stratford had to pass a lock of water to the GU even if their boat was passing the junction going down the Stratford. It was first built not to - hence the lawyers.

 

Before the current level cut was cut a few years back there was a sluice that did this from the Stratford pound into the GU. You could hear the water running underground near the sanitary station whenever a boat was emptying the lock above.

Edited August 26, 2009 by Tiny