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This padlock is on the hide at Holland Haven, one of my local nature reserves. I'm not really sure if I'm even supposed to go there for my exercise under the current lockdown. Hopefully things will start to improve soon!
Stoppage: Aldwarke Lock, Eastwood Lock & Kilnhurst Lock
Associated Regional Office: BW Yorkshire
Update (4 June 2008): The top lock gate at Aldwarke has been removed for repair following a breakdown. This repair is taking place off site and is expected to take approximately one week, after which the gate will need to be re-installed in the lock. We are doing as much as we can to re-open the lock as soon as possible and an update will be produced on Friday 13 June. British Waterways apologizes for the inconvenience caused.
2 June 2008: The top lock gates at Aldwarke have sustained damage and the lock is inoperable. The locks at Eastwood and Kilnhurst have been isolated from public operation for safety concerns. British Waterways apologises for any inconvenience caused while this is being rectified. An update will be issued on Wednesday 4 June.
This is another picture from my archive taken at Russell Market - Bangalore.
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One morning I thought I would do my laundry. I didn't have laundry detergent, so I ran to the grocery store. Literally, I ran about 2km to the grocery store to buy soap. What is somewhat normal in America, going to the store in shorts, bright orange running shoes, and nappy hair - isn't so normal here. Amid all the stares, I picked up some laundry detergent, a sausage for breakfast, and started running back home.
It must have been quite the seen for everyone. An American running with laundry detergent in one hand and sausage in the other. My nappy hair blowing in the breeze while I run the 2km back home.
I load my laundry and close the door to the washing machine. Having been to a laundromat, I was prepared to pay for this cleaning service. Such simple tasks become complicated when you don't read German. Particularly when you lock you clothes inside. Everything is in another language so I am not sure how to get my clothes out. Turns out the machine takes special coins - not Euros. My clothes were trapped!!!
I pulled out a dictionary and started to translate any word I could find on the machine. The first word I translated suggested I put my clothes in a missile throwing device. Yes, a missile throwing device.
I had to walk another 2km to the office to buy these special coins. They were closed. Of course.
My clothes trapped and the day passing - I left them there. I have camped before, people will just have to deal with the smell.
Torksey Lock sits just back from the River Trent, from here it connects with the Fossdyke.
The Roman built Fossdyke dates back to 120AD, making it the oldest working canal in England.
Cottam Power Station in the distance.
Slaymaker lock company was a manufacturer of locks founded in 1888, which for a time made steam powered automobiles. The company invented many unique inexpensive locks and were famous for their warded padlocks.
A warm sunny day at camden lock London an attraction to people of all ages I am on my way to Camden town shops. Springtime has arrived at last
I think I got lucky. This is the first time ever saw this. They were locked in the mating position for a long time, flapping their wings occasionally.
An unrestored lock.
The Fourteen Locks were completed by 1798 under the direction of Thomas Dadford Junior, as part of an arm (the Crumlin Arm) to link the main Monmouthshire Canal established in 1792 and also engineered by Dadford Junior, (linked in 1812 to the Brecon Canal at Pontymoile to form the "Mon-Brec") with collieries and works at Risca. The flight of locks rises 167 feet (51 metres) in just half a mile (804 metres), and is regarded as one of the wonders of British canal engineering. At the inaugural committee meeting of the Monmouthshire Canal Company in 1792, Dadford requested 200 wheelbarrows, 6 dozen casting tools, and 6 dozen shovels for this mammoth task.
ODC2...Lock and Key...Well, it took me a long time to match the keys with the locks that are stored in this key box. I can't remember why we have so many locks. I can only imagine that it is only because the locks were not matched with their keys and were most likely never together in the same place when we needed one. Well, at least I have captured them all and tied them up together. The question now is, why do I need so many?
This van was a mess! An old, rust-prone Mercedes van was parked partly on the sidewalk with this double lock system on the backdoor. Apparently the lock the van came with wasn't working properly anymore because another chain lock was installed.
Pretty futile if you ask me: the van was in such a bad shape, I bet that if you punched the thing somewhere on the side that a hole would appear easily and you'd enter the vehicle even quicker...
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8593
This photograph is from an album created by Lt Thomas Gerald George Fahey who served in the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during World War 1. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
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