On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 22:44:15 +0100, Mike Stevens wrote: >And >there's Braunston Stop on the original main line of the Oxford Canal (which >later became the Braunston Branch). I'm not sure whether that was built to >guage boats moving between the Oxford Canal and the Grand Junction Canal, or >whether it pre-dated the GJC and was originally simply an Oxford Canal >gauging stop.
I thought Braunston Stop was originally a stop lock - and I've seen a photo of it being dug out in the 1930s (in Nicholson's IIRC). But the more I think about it, the less sure I am. After all, the GJ didn't, originally, have anything to do with their water other than give it to the Oxford. When they built their back pumping engine, they also built the reservoirs, and had specific reservoir paddles on the bottom lock to divert the water there (the reservoirs weren't connected to the canal like they are now). So I can't see any purpose being served by having a stop lock there. So maybe it was just a gauging stop like Stretton. Anyone fancy doing the story of Kingswood/Lapworth while we're on the subject? -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
