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Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire.
The 29 locks have a rise of 237 feet in two miles and come in three groups. The lower seven locks, Foxhangers Wharf Lock to Foxhangers Bridge Lock spread over three quarters of a mile. The next sixteen form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes. It takes 5 - 6 hours to traverse in a boat!
The magnificent flight of 8 locks at Ottawa is now framed by Canada’s Parliament buildings on one side and the impressive Chateau Laurier hotel on the other. This is the largest single set of locks on the entire Rideau system, providing a lift of 24 m (79 ft.). The old Commissariat building (the business/supply office used during the building of the Rideau Canal), the oldest surviving building in Ottawa, now houses the Bytown Museum
The Hatton Locks or Hatton Flight are a flight of 21 locks on the Grand Union Canal in Hatton, Warwickshire, England. The flight spans less than 2 miles of canal and has a total rise of 148 ft [Wikipedia]. In the distance is the tower of St. Mary's Church in Warwick.
Although known by many as Whilton Locks, The locks themselves are officially Buckby Locks, and here we see 2 narrowboats entering Buckby Bottom Lock #13. although they will not get any further for some time at least, as the pound ahead of them was very low, maybe just 6 inches of water.
29th October 2018
I got these quick locks for my weight lifting bars; this will allow me to quickly mix up weights in my exercises and build muscle faster.
Another shot from the sky. This time it's the Caen Hill locks in Devizes, Wiltshire. A total of 29 locks raise the canal 237 feet in 2 miles.
Set of turning knob devices used for raising or lowering the metal gates of this small set of locks along the Malden River.
July 18, 2016
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Took a different route for my lunch hour walk today and decided to visit this bridge, it's been a while since I walked through here and I was curious about how many more locks had been added in the last couple years.
Well, more have been added, and I think some have been removed. But that's love for you; sometimes it's kind of fickle.
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day.
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The Ponte Milvio, spanning the Flume Tevere (Tiber River) in Rome, was an important bridge during the age of the Roman Empire. After a scene in a popular movie, couples began attaching padlocks to a lamppost on the bridge and then tossing the keys into the river. The padlocks collapsed the lamppost in 2008, not long after I took this picture. But, the tradition persisted and has since spread globally.
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life ....
Love gives us a fairy tale
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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: this is the middle section with sixteen locks form a steep flight in a straight line up the hillside and are designated as a scheduled monument and are also known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways.Because of the steepness of the terrain, the pounds between these locks are very short. As a result, fifteen of them have unusually large sideways-extended pounds, to store the water needed to operate them. A final six locks take the canal into Devizes.The locks take 5–6 hours to traverse in a boat.
After going into the hole at Wyeth for a westbound soda ash, the GMGHET 25 continues east, seen on a causeway west of Viento State Park. Earlier in december, I failed at catching CP 7020 on another grain meal train, after it night ran through Eugene on the way south, and was trailed for the return trip north. Luckily for me, this temperate army ACU made another round on a central valley grain meal train, with the empty originating on christmas day. So here's my redemption shot.
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72 yards of thick & thin brown baby alpaca goodness with puffy blobs of border leciester locks. Made from Loop batts!!!
It takes an hour and a half to go through the 8 locks from the Rideau canal to the Ottawa river (in the summer) an 80 ft change in elevation
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Passers-by view thousands of colorful "love locks" attached to a railing on Namsan mountain in Seoul, Korea. The practice of affixing padlocks to public fixtures to symbolize love -- which is said to have originated during WWI -- can be observed in many places throughout the world.
I spent last week in the company of family, friends and 3 dogs on a narrowboat, sailing up and down the Kennet and Avon canal. One of evenings, we moored by the majestic Caen Hill Locks near Devizes in Wiltshire. This is a shot from that evening.
"Love locks" on the Staalstraat bridge that crosses over Amsterdam's Groenburgwal canal. The iconic Zuiderkerk (Southern Chuch) is to the left of the picture.
Bratch Locks are a delightful feature of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal situated in the leafy outskirts of Wombourne. They are a legacy of James Brindley and offer visitors the chance to explore semi-rural South Staffordshire conveniently.
The canal runs through softly undulating West Midlands countryside, skirting around the edges of Birmingham without ever becoming truly urban. It is 46 miles long and has 43 locks.