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 :-) -- Julian Tether Barge Parglena e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
