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There are 7 or 8 locks preventing each lever from moving up. The levers allow the gate to be opened. The gate is there to keep miscreants like me out!
Bow Locks, London.
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Like all the other locks on the Manchester Ship Canal, Barton Locks are built on a foundation of solid sandstone rock with concrete on top. Below the water level the lock walls are built of concrete but are lined above water level with brick and a blue facing brick. There are two locks here, the largest on the north side of the canal measuring 600 x 65 feet to accommodate ocean-going ships, and the smaller one measuring 350 x 45 feet for vessels such as tugs and coasters.
Nathan really enjoyed the locks, I fell asleep during the informational video...but it was very interesting.
In Vladivostok. There were more locks in a touristy place (this time, a lookout point called Eagle's Nest) like in Irkutsk.
I like this shot because it illustrates the variety of locks; there's one normal padlock, one custom-made lock, and one one that was probably painted by the couple themselves.
Pont des Arts crosses the Seine just to the west of ÃŽle de la Cité and is famous for being covered in “love locks.” Unfortunately, city officials have been removing the locks in an effort to protect the historic pedestrian bridge. That hasn’t stopped visiting couples from adding new locks to the bridge’s wire mesh, though.
Originally published at sixtwothree.org/photos/77.
About halfway up the mountain there was this pagoda with a fence around it, and the fence was covered with locks. If you buy a lock and put the initials of you and your lover and lock it here, you'll stay together forever.
Aparently couples come here and place locks to make promises of their love? or something to that effect?
The Union Canal is a Contour Canal and has no locks until it gets to this point.
These locks and the tunnel are part of the Falkirk Wheel project. Originally the two canals had been joined at Falkirk by a flight of 11 locks which went in 1933 and is now a residential area.
Originally there were