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A quick drive down to Latchford Locks in Warrington to catch the last of the sunset. The sun was setting in this direction but all the colour was the other way although I did't really see a composition I liked.
Amtrak’s northbound Vermonter crosses the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge, just north of Windsor Locks, CT.
A canal boat entering the first of five locks at Bingley in Yorkshire. Please also view the new web site at www.garycphotography.co.uk
Love locks on the Brooklyn Bridge, only days after this was taken, were declared illegal.
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Experimenting with depth of field and lighting.
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LOCKS in my Studio Shed.........Brisbane Australia.
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It was a lovely day in the East Midlands yesterday, so I spent a few enjoyable hours walking round Foxton Locks, near Market Harborough in the south of Leicestershire. These are on the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal, and were completed in 1814. There are two "staircases" each of five locks. In the picture we can see two of the balancing ponds, with the lock-keeper's cottage, far left, at the top of the flight of locks. The last time I went it was very quiet but this time the pleasant spring weather had brought out quite a few people, and several boats made the journey up or down the locks.
I signed up for the Canal and River Trust Canalathon fundraiser this month (July 2022). The idea is to run or walk a total of 26.2 miles in July along local rivers and canals across England and Wales. I completed my 26.2 miles in almost one day with a 25.51 mile walk from Market Harborough to Leicester city centre. Earlier walks ensured I'd made my overall target. I plan to keep on canal/river walking in July and to add those walks to my overall total. You can see maps of my walks at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/brian-negus and, if you share my love of the English and Welsh waterways, any donations you feel able to make would be wonderful. I've also tweeted about my walks at www.twitter.com/BrianNegus.
This is part of the flight of 10 locks at Foxton Locks, where I took a brief lunch break after my first 5.8 miles. It is the steepest and longest staircase of locks in the UK. My path continues downhill to Leicester, not up that steep incline. I'm standing on an arched bridge over the canal to take this shot.
This is a shot taken through cables with locks on them from a foot bridge at Chambers Bay Park. The Olympic Mountains are in the distance. University Place, Washington State
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The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24.3 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as it passed through Pendleton, heading northwest to Prestolee before it split northwest to Bolton and northeast to Bury. Between Bolton and Bury the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several minor roads.
The canal was commissioned in 1791 by local landowners and businessmen and built between 1791 and 1808, during the Golden Age of canal building, at a cost of £127,700 (£9.73 million today).Originally designed for narrow gauge boats, during its construction the canal was altered into a broad gauge canal to allow an ultimately unrealised connection with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The canal company later converted into a railway company and built a railway line close to the canal's path, which required modifications to the Salford arm of the canal.
Most of the freight carried was coal from local collieries but, as the mines reached the end of their working lives sections of the canal fell into disuse and disrepair and it was officially abandoned in 1961. In 1987 a society was formed with the aim of restoring the canal for leisure use and, in 2006, restoration began in the area around the junction with the River Irwell in Salford. The canal is currently navigable as far as Oldfield Road, Salford.
Day 17, Panama Canal:
The viewing point at the front of the Columbus was packed with people as we passed through the first set of three locks raising the ship up.
Locks on the Ponte Vecchio are put there by lovers. After "locking" their love on one of the horse tethers, they throw the key over the bridge into the Arno River to "seal" their love!
Today, early morning, under a cold rain... I was walking through Ponte Vecchio going to work and for the first time in 7 year I decided to take some pictures of this interesting usage... I think for this time, to lock my new love I'm going to buy some locks, just in case...
Number 4 in my allocated theme for this week Locks. So moving away from the obvious this is a lock of my wife's hair kept an album since 1949. She also had a photograph taken in black and white and hand coloured from the same era. this was pasted and blended into my photograph of the lock of hair in photoshop.
Locks on the Ponte Vecchio are put there by lovers. After "locking" their love on one of the horse tethers, they throw the key over the bridge into the Arno River to "seal" their love!
Today, early morning, under a cold rain... I was walking through Ponte Vecchio going to work and for the first time in 7 year I decided to take some pictures of this interesting usage... I think for this time, to lock my new love I'm going to buy some locks, just in case...
2nd October 2010 and lms steam locomotive 5690 Leander storms over Dutton Viaduct as seen from Dutton Locks
A pair of narrowbaots make off, having negotiated a set of locks at Whilton locks, Northamptonshire. 22nd April 2017
A sunrise photo taken at the 5 Rise Locks, which as the name suggests, lifts/lowers a boat through 5 locks. The locks are the steepest flock of Locks in the UK with a rise of 18ft 2 inches over 320 ft. The morning calmness resulted in a longer exposure to flatten the foreground water out.
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Lock 72, looking towards Wigan, with St Catharine's church
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal - stretching 127 miles and taking 46 years to complete - is truly
one of the wonders of the industrial age.
The final stretch of the canal in Wigan was one of the most difficult to build but is a
extraordinary feet of engineering. Over
three miles to Top Lock, the terrain rises
200 feet and incorporates a magnificent
flight of 23 locks.
A favourite place to stroll around with my camera. Here is a boat that has gone through Hillmorton middle lock and is now going onto the lower lock. Hillmorton is the busiest set of locks on the UK Canal network.
The main building of the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, Panama, is between the two series of locks.
taken at latchford locks along the manchester ship canal,
theres only this one at the moment who the dad one is looking after the female swan is still sat on the nest with 7or8 more eggs don't know if they will hatch this ones about 3 days old
These two Canal Boats Emerge from the Watery Stair lift at the three rise
Locks Bingley on the Leeds Liverpool Canal
“Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about 3 miles (5 km) west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough. They are named after the nearby village of Foxton.
They form the northern terminus of a 20-mile (32 km) summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight
Alongside the locks is the site of the Foxton Inclined Plane, built in 1900 to resolve the operational restrictions imposed by the lock flight. It was not a commercial success and only remained in full-time operation for ten years.[6] It was dismantled in 1926, but a project to re-create it commenced in the 2000s, since the locks remain a bottleneck for boat traffic.”
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