--- In [email protected], Nick Atty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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).
If that's the same photo I'm thinking of, ir purports to show the
widening of the section of the Oxford Canal between Braunston Turn
and Brunston Stop to Grand Junction standards.
There are two questions in my mind :-
1. Was there a gauging stop at Braunston before the GJC came on the
scene? (Quite likely, IMO)
2. When did the aforementioned wideneing take place? If at the time
of the building of the GJC, the photography wasn't invented. In
which case the most likely date is the 1930s, when the former Warwick
Canals were widened by the new Grand Union Canal Company.
> 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.
I can't fault that analysis.
>
> Anyone fancy doing the story of Kingswood/Lapworth while we're on
> the subject?
I'd read that with considerable interest.
Mike Stevens
nb Felis Catus III - habing a lazy-day-layover at Thrupp
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