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Built in 1840
"The Leesport Lock House is a house accompanying a lock on the Schuylkill Canal in Leesport, Pennsylvania, USA. The house was built adjacent to the Leesport Locks #36 and #37 to allow canal barges to move quickly up and down the canal. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1977. The property was purchased in 1975 by a group of teachers and school directors from the Schuylkill Valley School District. They organized the Leesport Lockhouse Foundation. After paying the no interest mortgage, provided by The First National Bank of Leesport, they turned title to the property over to Berks County. The County purchased the neighboring car wash, built over a section of the locks, and transferred ownership to the Borough of Leesport. The property and programs are administered by the Leesport Lockhouse Foundation, Inc." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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View from the design studio and exhibition space of Astronaut Kawada, architects and designers.
Richmond Lock, Weir and Footbridge 1894. Hunt and Steward, Ransomes & Rapier, F. G. M. Stoney,
at Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP, shown as "Lockhouse 33" on maps, but apparently it burned down. source
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Leisure activities by Rideau river. Rideau Canal, Lock 13 - Black Rapids Lock-station.
Historic houses and locks of the Rideau river, in Ottawa.
nrhp # 77001123- The Lock House was originally built in 1834[4] by the Schuylkill Navigation Company.[5] The Schuylkill Navigation Company was chartered to build a series of navigation improvements in the Schuylkill River, allowing coal from the Coal Region to be delivered from Port Clinton to the ports in Philadelphia. The Schuylkill Navigation Company was the only means of carrying coal en-masse to Philadelphia for twenty years, until the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was completed in 1841. Within only four years, the railroad was hauling three times the amount of coal as the Schuylkill Canal.
Although the canal continued to carry nearly two million tons of anthracite up through 1859, the Reading Railroad continued to transport more than the canal. In 1860, use of the canal started to decline. In 1869, a coal miners strike caused a shortage of material to be transported, a drought saw a severe drop in water levels in the canal, and severe flooding later damaged many portions of the canal. The Schuylkill Navigation Company struggled to find money to repair the damage,[6] until it was ultimately leased to the Reading Railroad in 1870. By 1890, traffic on the canal was carrying less than a tenth of the cargo as it had during its most prosperous years.[7]
However, the Lock House remained a symbol of economic growth in the Leesport area. Ultimately, both the canal and the railroad served to develop Leesport's economy.
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This lockhouse burned and was rebuilt in 1906. It is open on weekends in the summer with a small exhibit on display.
The C&O Canal runs 184 miles from Cumberland in the west to Washington, DC in the east. It operated for under 100 years, from 1831 to 1924. Since the 1960s it has been a National Historical Park.
I love the reflections that puddles make and although this is the second attempt at a shot like this and the fact the reflection isn't as clear as I'd liked it still captures the view perfectly. Walking in the rain after 14 weeks of isolation was damn refreshing too. Always appreciate your surroundings.
Tour of Europe 04 2016
Day 13
Sashuis (Sluice House or Lock House) (1519), taken from the entrance bridge to The Ten Wijngaarde Beguinage.
The Minnewater is the place where the River Reie entered the city. The flow of the Reie was notoriously variable. If rainfall was heavy, the water level rose rapidly, so that the lower lying land on both sides of its banks was soon flooded. As the city graduallyexpanded, it became necessary to build on this low-lying land. This meant that the
temperamental Reie needed to be controlled. For this reason, a series of locks and weirs were constructed during the 13th century. This led to the creation of the Minnewater, as a water catchment area and reservoir.
The pumping station, which also served as the lock keeper’s house, dates from the 16th century and was restored during the 19th century. The mechanism for operating the lock has not been used for a few decades. A beautiful and so typical house.
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Here we see Offerton locks house which looked after the Offerton locks numbers 11 to 16. The house is placed near the last lock at lock number 15. This is all on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal.
Taken September 2021.
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Minnewater (Lake of Love)
A romantic hotspot par excellence! Once people believed that water nymphs (“minnen” in Dutch) lived here, and thus the lake acquired its name. Add to that a tragic love story, mysterious trees and an abundance of greenery and you get a place overflowing with romance. How about an Instagram post? The finest photos can be taken from the Lake of Love bridge, or by the Lockhouse. A hit even without filters.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges
Bruges (Dutch: Brugge; French: Bruges; German: Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 sq km; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee, meaning "Bruges by the Sea"). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008), of whom around 20,000 live in the city centre. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 616 km2 (238 sq mi) and has a total of 255,844 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008.
Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam, it is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North. Bruges has a significant economic importance, thanks to its port, and was once one of the world's chief commercial cities. Bruges is well known as the seat of the College of Europe, a university institute for European studies.
Source: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashuis
A lockhouse is a home of a lockkeeper.
If it is a sluice , the building is sometimes called a lock house . More specifically, this name is used if the house forms one whole with the lock, or with the lock doors, such as the lock in Lier , or the lock house in Herdersem . The term is also known from the book (and film and television series based on it) " The Philosopher of 't Sashuis " by Maurits Sabbe , where the story takes place around the sashuis on the Minnewater in Bruges .
taken outside the historic lockhouse on the C&O Canal in Washington County MD
the Potomac River is in the background
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Completed in 1837, Lockhouse 28 stands as a reminder of the fierce competition between the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the race to reach the Ohio River Valley. At Point of Rocks the land between the Potomac River and the rocky outcropping becomes precariously narrow. Both companies knew ownership of this strip of land was imperative to winning the race to the Ohio. Adversaries in the courts for four years, both canal and railroad were given rights-of-way, with the C&O Canal allowed to build next to the river, and the B&O Railroad forced to carve its way through the hillside just above the canal.
Today, Lockhouse 28 is a rustic retreat, situated between the scenic Potomac and the still-active railroad tracks. It is the most remote of the Canal Quarters lockhouses, located nearly 1/2 mile from the nearest parking area.
Information from: www.canaltrust.org/programs/canal-quarters/canal-quarters...
A couple of photos of Lina making herself at home in the cottage we stayed in! This was where she slept at night - on her rug in our bedroom.
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The Worcester and Birmingham Canal is a canal linking Birmingham and Worcester in England. It starts in Worcester, as an 'offshoot' of the River Severn (just after the river lock) and ends in Gas Street Basin in Birmingham. It is 29 miles (47 km) long. There are 58 locks in total on the canal, including the 30 Tardebigge Locks, one of the largest lock flights in Europe. The canal climbs 428 feet (130 m) from Worcester to Birmingham.
These cottages are at Blockhouse Lock, number four of 58.
This is a bracketed three exposure image.
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