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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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“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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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.
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.
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Stonebridge Lock (No16) is a paired lock on the River Lee Navigation in the London Borough of Haringey, England and is located near Tottenham, London. Like other locks as far as Ponder's End Lock it is large enough to take barges of up to 130 tons. The primary lock has been upgraded to mechanical operation, but the secondary lock is operated manually.
The lock is situated on the navigation between the Lockwood Reservoir on the Walthamstow side and Tottenham Marshes on the Tottenham side. The lock can be reached on foot only from Marsh Lane behind Northumberland Park railway station.
Pedestrian and cycle access via the towpath which forms part of the Lea Valley Walk
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...
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...
The locks, attached to the bridge crossing the Nyhaven canal, are a promise to return to Copenhagen. The image was taken a dawn with the colorful architecture and wooden ships docked in the canal.
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...
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 three miles west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough. They date from 1810 and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. They form the northern terminus of a 20-mile summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight
Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb a steep hill, and consist of a group of locks where each lock opens directly into the next, that is, where the bottom gates of one lock form the top gates of the next. Foxton Locks are the largest flight of such staircase locks on the English canal system.
At the bottom of the flight is the Foxton Locks Inn, the cream-coloured building just right of centre. This is a very popular pub-restaurant. Just beyond it, out of shot, is the junction for the Market Harborough Arm of the canal.
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.
These two Canal Boats Emerge from the Watery Stair lift at the three rise
Locks Bingley on the Leeds Liverpool Canal
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The waterfall and locks descending from the Pawtucket and Eastern Canals to the Concord River in Lowell, Massachusetts. The canals were built in the 1800s to provide power and transporation to Lowell's former textile mills.
For more information on the Lowell canal system, see www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/lowell-waterways.htm.
Hohenzollern Bridge, Cologne, Germany
Couples engrave or write their names or initials on a lock, then attach it to the bridge -- and then throw the key into the Rhine River to symbolize their eternal love.
Love Padlocks - "After you've designed a love lock that corresponds to your wishes and attached it to the bridge, you have to throw the key down from the Hohenzollern Bridge into the Rhine in order to make your commitment irreversible. " www.cologne-tourism.com
The Holtenau Locks (1914) at Kiel, Germany, gives access to the Baltic Sea. Originally known as the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, the Kiel Canal or Nord-Ostsee-Kanal was inaugurated in 1895 as a naval route.