In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>> [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 :-) > >[still more pedant] > >I thought that Gas 2 were the bottom two of the four Northchurch locks - >Gas 2, Bushes & Northchurch top. > >[/still more pedant]
Cant let that go Bushes or Barkers is the one below Dudswell (49) not the one above 51 and 52 Awkward Billy or Crooked Billet is 50........ -- Julian Tether Barge Parglena e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
