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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). (:
Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the library, kept his belonging in this strongbox. This is the intricate lock in the lid.
Another picture from of my grandfather's tools. This was the lock he used on his beach shed. Not totally a "tool" I guess but you do need a lock & key to protect your tools. ;)
This is the general area where Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 27, Phillip's Lock, would have been located. It's buried with no stones exposed. If you walk west from the defunct Adirondack Power and Light Plant (now the Cranesville Block Co.) - following the power lines, you can see where the grade of the road rises. Then you come to a Terwilliger Creek ( the culvert allows Terwilliger Creek to pass under Route 5S and empty into the Mohawk River). Thats where the lock was, just before the creek. The lock abutted the culvert (near the left side) over the creek. It's filled in, there is a high tension tower right in the middle of the lock. ( I want to thank the Yahoo Erie Canal Group for the info on the location of this lock) ----- I found a little more info on the lock after doing a little checking - it was a double chamber lock, lengthened at the foot on the berme side with a 8.120 lift,west. This culvert is located on the south side of Route 5S in Pattersonville,NY
Grove Lock and the Grove Lock pub on the Grand Union Canal near Leighton Buzzard. 16th November 2005.
Some of the lock hardware found on Lock 48. At one time this and many other locks along the C&O Canal saw a ton of traffic. I can't imagine seeing this marvel of engineering back in it's heyday.
Lock Ridge Park, Alburtis Pa
In 1868 the Lock Ridge Iron Works was built. This mammoth blast furnace chewed through mountains of coal in its endeavor to push America into its industrial revolution.
Café des Éclusiers bar view from the top of canal Lachine lock doors. Radio-Canada, Molson and Jacques-Cartier bridge in the background.
Art installation in pedestrian underpass. Took this as a night zoom shot, a technique involving zooming in while the shot is happening.
Old lock of hair from an unknown person and the wax paper it was wrapped in. I found this wedged between the pages of an 1896 edition of "McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book."
This textbook was used in a one room schoolhouse in Crittenden County, Kentucky....
A shot from the famous Caen hill locks in Devizes.
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire England.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in 2 miles (72 m in 3.2 km) or a 1 in 44 gradient. The locks come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock, are spread over 1.2 km. The next sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, 15 locks have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes.[This flight of locks was engineer John Rennie's solution to climbing the very steep hill, and was the last part of the 87 mile route of the canal to be completed. Whilst the locks were under construction a tramroad provided a link between the canal at Foxhangers to Devizes, the remains of which can be seen in the towpath arches in the road bridges over the canal.A brickyard was dug to the south of the workings to manufacture the bricks for the lock chambers and this remained in commercial use until the middle of the 20th century.
Because a large volume of water is needed for the locks to operate, a back pump was installed at Foxhangers in 1996 capable of returning 32 million litres of water per day to the top of the flight, which is equivalent to one lockful every eleven minutes.
In the early 19th century, 1829–43, the flight was lit by gas lights.
The locks take 5–6 hours to travel in a boat and lock 41 is the narrowest on the canal.
After the coming of the railways, the canal fell into disuse and was closed. The last cargo through the flight was a consignment of grain conveyed from Avonmouth to Newbury in October 1948.[6] From the 1960s there was a major clearing and rebuilding operation, culminating in a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 to officially open the new locks and the flight (although the flight had been navigable for a number of years before then).
In 2010 British Waterways planned to install sixteen new locks gates in twelve weeks as part of its winter maintenance programme, in an attempt to reduce the amount of water lost.[7] The exceptionally cold weather delayed work, and when the section was re-opened at Easter 2010 only twelve pairs of gates had been dealt with.The wood from the old gates was donated to Glastonbury Festival and used to build a new bridge which was named in honour of Arabella Churchill, one of the festival's founders