Neil Arlidge wrote:
> John and Ann wrote:
>> A down at heel and niffy part of London will bear the name of
>> Prescott forever. BW yesterday announced a £15m lock and flood
>> control structure on the R Lea , which will be essential to the
>> Olympics, it will be called Prescott sluices.
> So this bit of navigating will soon be history..........
Only in the sense that its history will move on.
The Prescott Channel was first cut in the 1930s, with a non-navigable sluice
(Prescott Sluice) at its southern end. The sluice was removed some time
later (1960s?), creating a link that was navigable at certain states of the
tide.
If what's now going to be built is as the proposals I've seen, on the site
of the old sluice will be a ginormous lock to take large barges for the
construction traffic for the Olumpic site. The rivers above here will cease
to be tidal and will be impounded at a navigable level.
Mike Stevens
nb Felis Catus III - currently moored just round the corner from where
we're talking about.
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk
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