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Honestly, I was kind of confused to why this was there and how it got there because it obviously unlocks but it wasn't holding something together. Whatever! It made a good photograph, and that's all I care about!
#2 of my Utrecht collection.
This is a door locked in a big cathedral in Utrecht. I really love how it looks so old!
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Lock 21 on the historic Trent-Severn Waterway at Peterborough, Ontario. View to Peterborough and the fountain.
A lock on one of the gates of a Mapuche community. It is a testament to the repressed lifestyle that they are destined to lead until changes are made.
Abingdon Lock's history is as fascinating as it gets. There are remains of an lock constructed around 1624. It is the oldest surviving lock chamber in the UK, and possibly Europe.
This ancient lock - now acting as a weir - is near the top of the Swift Ditch, a meandering stream that by-passes the town of Abingdon to the south. You can still see the old brick chamber at the head of the Swift Ditch.
Today you can see big cruisers with flying bridges, Dutch barges and passenger steamers along with the popular narrow boats and small powered craft using the river. But in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the Thames formed a main trade route to and from London, you would be more likely to see horse-drawn and sailing barges carrying grain, timber and coal.
Lock Keeper
The Lock Keeper here is Roger Steere, who has lived in the Lock House since 1984. Roger and his wife, Gillian, agree that running this lock has been 'extremely rewarding.' A former programmer, Roger says, 'When I was in computers, I thought ,"there must be more to life than this" so I became a lock keeper'.
A life-long steam engine enthusiast, Roger spends much of his spare time in his workshop constructing working scale models of locomotives and traction engines.
This lock has been preserved in superficial working order since at least the 1970s. Even if it were working it would serve no purpose as about fifty yards further north the canal is culverted under Pentre Lane. Ironically, the locks between Pentre Lane and Ty Coch have been restored to working order even though the navigable stretch of the canal finishes about two miles further north at Five Locks, Pontnewydd, and the canal is culverted at Pentre Lane and Hollybush Way, isolating this section.
Lock control building at Lock 9 on the Erie Canal.
Photographed on Kodak Kodachrome 64 using a NIkkor 18mm f/4 lens on a NIkon F5.
Its a shame I could get a better angle, if I'd know how good this was going to look I would have tried harder.
3 shots in Photomatix -2,0,+2 EV. Then final tidying in Photoshop CS3.
2007-07-14 Biertan, Transylvania, Romania: 19 locks in one, but now unfortunately broken by tourists. The lock won a prize at the World Expo in Paris in 1900. Photograph by Aleksander Rabl.
A view of one of the locks and houses on the Leeds Liverpool Canal. Its just by the M6 and Douglas River, you can actually see the piers that hold up the M6 viaduct
This was on our room's door in the Riad Karmela.
On the outside of our room.
Excuse me! What was the plan here? To lock us in?
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.
At Days Lock footbridge over the River Thames at Little Wittenham, Oxfordshire. This fiercely contested international competition takes place on Sunday 28th. March enter here....http://www.pooh-sticks.com/entryform.php
This is the lock of a bunker used by Seis Inquart in WWII.
Some extra information is found here (in dutch).