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London, England
2011
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A stunning lock mechanism, with a strange and overly-intricate level of detail... and, most unusually, vague mythologically-nautical motifs. Why do the horses have fish tails and wings? Who knows. It looks amazing either way.
the lock reopened towards the end of March. The inside has been completely re-done but the original wooden gates are still
there.
At the end of the Stourbridge canal where it joins the Staffs & Worcs canal. When the pictures were taken work was suspended I guess due to the poor weather.
Cheatham Lock & Dam is downstream from Ashland City along the Cumberland River in Cheatham County.
From the US Army Corps of Engineers website:
www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Locations/NavigationLocks/Cumberla...
Cheatham Lock is located at Mile 148.6 on the Cumberland River in Cheatham County, Tennessee and is approximately 10 miles northwest of Ashland City, Tenn. Cheatham Lock is open to pass navigation traffic 24 hours-a-day, 365 days a year.
The 67-mile reservoir created by Cheatham Dam provides Nashville and middle Tennessee with a stable water supply and access to the entire Mississippi River system and the Intracoastal Waterway and plays an integral part in various commodities being transported to the region by water.
Cheatham Lock and Dam was authorized by Congress in 1946 as a navigation project to enhance the development of the Cumberland River Basin. Construction on the Lock was begun in 1949. Cheatham Lock was opened to navigation traffic on August of 1951. The lock chamber is 800-foot long and 110-foot wide. During normal lake levels, the lock will lift a boat 26-foot from the river below the dam to the lake above the dam. The lock releases over 17 million gallons of water each time is emptied.
Due to geological conditions in the area, the site selected for construction presented unique challenges on designing the project. This is the only lock in the Nashville District that was designed to flood; the lock walls had to be built according to the elevations of the surrounding land. Thus, create a design so that flood waters could flow over the structure with minimal damage when waters receded.
The lock has been submerged on several occasions, but the historical record-breaking flood of May 2010 submerged the lock and operations building in water almost fifteen feet deep. This far exceeded the designed limits for the structure and caused the Nashville District to perform a complete electrical overhaul and hydraulic rehab of the lock. Temporary repairs and clean-up were made and the lock was able to reopen to navigation traffic under restricted operation approximately 14 days after the waters receded. It was the middle of June 2010 before the lock returned to 24 hour operations.
Gets stuck, key won't turn at all.
Trying to fix this on my own - don't want to spend $600 for a new ignition switch assembly.
Lock Keepers House
Teddington Lock is a complex of three locks and a weir on the River Thames between Ham and Teddington, it was first built in 1810.
The limit of legal powers between the Port of London Authority, the navigation authority downstream to the North Sea and that upstream to small headwaters of the river, the Environment Agency, is marked nearby by an obelisk on the "Surrey" (towpath, right) bank.
The weir named Teddington Weir marks the river's usual tidal limit and is the lowest on the Thames. This lock is the lowest full-tide lock and second lowest of all-tide locks on the Thames.
The complex of civil engineering or infrastructure in essence consists of a large long weir and three locks: a conventional launch lock in regular use, very large barge lock and a small skiff lock. The barge lock was made to accommodate long barges, steamers or passenger ferries and has an additional set of gates half-way to operate more quickly for shorter craft. The staggered structures incorporate two reinforced narrow islands. The upper island is traversed by and accessible by the lock gates or Teddington Lock Footbridge.
All that remains of Lock 13 (located about 2 miles west of downtown Utica) are some stones embedded in the bank and this part of the wall...some books say nothing remains of this lock...but in the winter you can see these remains...during the summer plant growth hides this remnant.
A small detour this morning to one of the lock gates on the Northampton Arm of the Grand Union Canal
This is Welland Canal Lock 1 in the morning sun. Lake Ontario is in the background.
Photographed using a Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 lens on a Sony A7R.
The lock gates at the entrance to Bristol Harbour
You can purchase greetings cards, prints and posters with this image on by following this link