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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.
This is Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 62. This view is of the south chamber, standing on the west end looking toward the east. The lock was built in 1855 with two separate chambers, with the south chamber being lengthened in 1877. The lock was abandoned in 1918. The towpath trail is maintained but the lock has deteriorated somewhat. You will find it located in the Pittsford Plaza near Wegmans ( in the very back, up the hill ) or along a trail from French Road approximately one mile north of the village of Pittsford.
This is the lock of a bunker used by Seis Inquart in WWII.
Some extra information is found here (in dutch).
The Flickr Lounge-Lock, Key or Both Photo #3
We ran an errand to the cycle shop this morning and while I was waiting on Stu, I saw this beautiful lock and chain on the fence.
To culminate the Social Studies unit in 3rd grade, all third grade classes at our school walked to town and visited the City Hall where we met the mayor, the police department and the jail, the Alapaha Bank, the Chamber of Commerce (the oldest jail building in Georgia), a beauty salon (with tanning bed and massage), and the court house.
Listed Grade II
Lock-up, C18 possibly C17, timber-framed with stone slate pyramid roof. Red brick base. Small, square plan with exposed studs, boarded within and front door set high to right. South side door.
Bromham is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The village is 3 1⁄2 miles (6 km) northwest of Devizes and the same distance east of Melksham.
The parish has three Grade II* listed houses. Battle House, named for the manor of Bromham Battle, held by Battle Abbey, is partly 15th century, largely rebuilt c. 1760; it was the home of the historian Sir William Napier between 1826 and 1831.
Spye Arch, at the top of Bowden Hill, once served as gatehouse to Spye Park, a seat of the Bayntun family. It had originally been constructed in the 16th century as the gatehouse of the Cistercian Stanley Abbey, which stood near the eastern edge of the parish, towards Chippenham; the Abbot's Wood that appears as a block of woodland in Andrews’ and Dury’s Map of Wiltshire, 1773, survives as a narrow wooded strip south of the village.
Nonsuch House, north of Bromham village on the road from Melksham, is from the early 18th century.
View from the Lock gates upstream at Allington. A quiet and peaceful summers evening (yes we did have one!)