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It's not often that I stand around wishing for a crowbar, but I did that day, and wanted to break off that lock and let the people inside. Of course, if I'd done that, I'd probably be writing this from an Irish jail...
Lock Path, Boveney, Buckinghamshire.
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They'd come so far, and then she saw, in him,
the door to their life, their home, their daily bread locked.
One night in a fiery panic dream he ran
and found the door toward which he'd wildly fled locked.
Aging, but at long last ripe and ready,
she found the on-ramp to the road ahead locked.
They learned too late the cost of keeping that cellar
full of truths that could not be gainsaid locked.
This photo was taken at the east end of old Lock 58 in Newark, NY. This view is looking west down the north chamber. This is one of the three Enlarged Erie locks which were located in Newark around 1841. This one was the middle lock. Located off Route 31 on Lyons Street in Newark, NY.
Return to Gloucester Docks.
Unexpectedly came back to Gloucester, 6 years after my last visit (was on the way back from Westbury Court Garden).
A few changes but mostly the same here.
Lock to allow vessels to pass between Gloucester Dock Basin and the River Severn.
The lock is large and deep - it used to be a "staircase" of two locks, but was converted into one to allow larger vessels to pass.
Near the Lock Warehouse.
I didn't take photos of the plaques as I couldn't remember if I'd got them last time I was here or not.
Fricks Lock is this town that is now abandoned. From what I know, there was a lock there. Now a power company owns all the land and the town is all boarded up. There are lots of No Tresspassing signs up all over and signs indicating that the place has cameras all over, so we didn't go in. We have since found out you can get a permit to enter.
This is what we could see from the gate.
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It kept criminals locked behind those bars for decades but didn't manage to keep itself locked to the ground any longer.
A glimpse of Pudu Jail, Kuala Lumpur; 1895-2010.