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Enfield Lock station is in London Fare Zone 6 and is served by Greater Anglia trains. The building behind may have been an old station house.
One of the many locks placed on Melbourne's iconic Evan Walker Bridge (previously the Southbank Pedestrian Bridge).
Lock and chain on white background.
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Saint-Lambert Locks, St-Lawrence Seaway.
Écluses de Saint-Lambert, Voie Maritime du Fleuve Saint-Laurent.
The Saint-Lambert Locks are part of the St-Lawrence Seaway. They have also been an integral part of our lives for the past 47 years since the opening, to which I was present, in the Spring of 1959. We see the locks from the streets that border the St-Lawrence River and from the bridges that we use to go to Montréal. We see the huge ships that pass between Saint-Lambert and Montréal, travelling on their way to and from the Great Lakes and the Atlantic ocean.
There are three bridges linking Saint-Lambert and the city, Jacques-Cartier, Victoria and Champlain. Downtown Montréal is ten minutes away from Saint-Lambert via Victoria bridge that begins in the middle of our town. As people take this bridge, sometimes twice daily by car or by train, they pass directly over the locks.
Shortly before a ship arrives at the locks, an arm of the bridge closest to the ship is raised to let it inside while the other arm is lowered to let the diverted traffic pass. The locks' gates are closed and the water level is raised. When this is done, the traffic is again diverted, this time to the newly lowered branch of the bridge, while the other side is raised to let the ship pass.
Our region is known for its considerable cycling paths. An important link to the extensive network of South Shore and Montréal cycling paths runs over a highway, the locks and a short part of the river to reach the islands, then Montréal. When a ship must pass and the bridge is raised, people on foot or on their bicycles using the part of the path that is integrated to the bridge must wait, sometimes a long time, for the bridge to be lowered. Meanwhile, they enjoy the view!
More photos will be taken from other perspectives in the near future.
Beeleigh Lock, Chelmer & Blackwater Navigation, Beeleigh, Maldon, Essex.
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This is an image I took in Alabama over a year ago. I didn't do anything with it because it was horribly exposed and thought it was useless. You can see the original in comments section. I took this and ran a single file conversion in photomatix and edited in photoshop. This is one other reason I love HDR. You have the ability to fix images that you thought might be useless. I guess a better way would be just to expose it right the first time. But that's to easy, right? I love places like this because it makes you wonder the history and what is so important to lock it up like this. The building was very old and very small. It might have held the holy grail.
Blanchetown - home of Lock No. 1 and Riverland gateway. A Murray River township 135km north-east of Adelaide, and 275 kms from the Murray Mouth. In its hey-days Blanchetown was an important riverbank terminal where goods were offloaded from paddlesteamers to be cleared through the local Customs House. The town's prosperity suffered when the railway by-passed it in favour of upstream Morgan. Blanchetown was one of the first river settlements in South Australia. Surveyed in 1855, the town was named by Governor Sir Richard Graves McDonnell after his wife Lady Blanche McDonnell. It began life as a stopover point and watering place for mail contractors and coaches carrying passengers on the "Sydney Road" as it was then known.
The first of a series of seven locks on the Murray in South Australia (William Randell Lock in honour of the pioneer of river navigation in the 1800's) was completed in 1922.
The lock and keyhole on my grandmother's hat and shoe case. When she traveled by train she had 5 or 6 hats in the middle of this case, with at least 6 pairs of shoes in the pockets that line this round box. My mother kept knitting supplies in it, and now it is my office holding a sweater and similar things. I do not have the key.
Our Daily Challenge: HOLE(S)
Used in Our Daily Challenge: No Words Photogame www.flickr.com/groups/ourdailychallenge/discuss/721576236...
The redundant Stanley Mills, Perthshire.
Stanley Mill was planned by Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford fame - part of the first development of industrial labour and production. It was never the success (or the size) of New Lanark in Scotland, but it struggled on till the 1980s.
It is interesting to imagine those faces from the past trying to make sense of the world we now inhabit, where these mills are penthouse flats desired by wealthy commuters. To these people, commuting, if it had existed as a word, meant the cart from Bankfoot to Stanley.
If you are interested in Stanley Mills, the project for redevelopment (including a historic site cross-subsidised by the new apartments), you can go to this link:
www.princes-regeneration.org/pmwiki.php?n=PT.StanleyMills
A very good new site on flickr is the Economic and Social History Group - People and their Industry.
Grade II listed, this unusual round building is a lock up. It had 1 cell approximately 4m in diameter, with a door on one side. What makes it particularly unusual is the domed roof surmounted by a cupola with ball finial. It was built in 1819 by the Earl of Shrewsbury to act as a temporary prison.
I love Sarah Dessen. I just finished reading Lock and Key, and I actually think I can finally say which one I love the most. :)
I'm not happy with the photos. I'm still experimenting. So better pictures coming soon (hopefully). (: