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This is Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 59 in Newark, NY This is the upper entrance looking east. It was a double chamber, single length lock and it was built in 1841 with a second chamber being built in 1874. The south chamber is partly buried. The north chamber is empty and it is possible to walk halfway down it before you reach swampy conditions. The three openings in the head of the lock are spillway entrances which release the excess water and control the water level above the lock. The lift of the lock was approximately 8 feet. In canal days this lock was referred to as the Upper Lockville Lock. It is located northeast of the center of town and is located across from Barge Canal Lock 28-B.
Cardboard cylinder full of lock washers with a beautiful gilt label. Metal lid screws on. Bottom stamped with makers mark, St. Louis.
Reason behind the name? The car decided to lock me outside, with the keys in the ignition....if only it was Scotland, I could have names it Loch-ed out, lovely... haha! 2 hour wait for the spare key to be brought out to me, in the drizzle, with only a thin t-shirt on, was lovely! Camera gear and waterproofs locked in the car....
A very wet and misty day, and an extremely miserable me after being locked out of the car at Yew Tree Tarn, mono was the only way to go with this one, plus, i'm loving black and white at the moment anyhow....
For some unknown reason, there were lots of locked doors locked with these gold metal locks, they were all shiny.
This is a shot of the central divider ( west end) of Lock 51 and it is pretty much covered by foliage. This Enlarged Erie Canal Lock was built in 1847 and was a double chamber lock, with the south chamber double length on the west (foot) end. It locked down to the west so the usual three overflow openings are on the other (east) end. This lock had a 5.732 foot descent to the west. It replaced the original lock that was in the Village of Jordan, which was demolished when the Jordan level was extended. It is located two miles west of the Village of Jordan, on the north side of Route 31, at the Onondaga/Cayuga county line.
Lock, Shock and Barrel from an upcoming 3" Figure Vinylmation collection celebrating Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Check out more at www.Vinylmation.com
So, I set myself a mini challenge of going shooting with my 10-20mm lens. Here's a graveyard I work near.
Hmm, better die with the appropriate form to get in to the graveyard!
The former lock from the Avon to Bathurst Basin and the Floating Harbour, closed in the Second World War to try to mitigate any bomb damage.
I was in the RAF from Nov 1993 to Dec 2000. These pictures are from my trade training days at RAF Locking near Weston-Super-Mare, 9 Feb 1994 - 1 Aug 1994. I was on course TCO 114.
At RAF Locking I was trained as a Telecommunications Operator (TCO). A TCO mainly worked in Communication Centres or Signals Unit's, operating a variety of telegraphic, cryptographic, radio, and Morse equipment. TCO's were also trained as Telephonists where they worked in station telephone exchanges. TCO's could also serve in a field comms role at Tactical Communications Wing (TCW) RAF Brize Norton, a role in which I served in early 1998.
I later returned to RAF Locking in 1997 to undertake my Morse course (3 Mar 1997 - 10 Jun 1997); I was on QMC 41.
The operational units I served at were:
RAF Waddington
TCW, RAF Brize Norton (detached to Bahrain)
RAF Coningsby