In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Stevens 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:48 PM [GMT+1=CET],
>Terry Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>   Gas 2 lock was set with top gates open
>
>[pedant]
>
>There ain't no such lock!  "Gas 2" refers to the pair of locks, which are
>individually referred to as "Gas top" and "Gas bottom".  Or so I've
>experienced for the best part of 30 years.
>
>[/pedant]
>
/even more pedant
Locks 51 and 52 were known as Northchurch locks or Old Ned's ( Ned Adlum 
worked on the canal at the time it was built)
/pedant off

Ref Shell book of inland waterways 1975 :-)
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Julian Tether
Barge Parglena
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