On Monday, September 10, 2007 7:53 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Keens, Graham, VF UK - Technology (RO) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I eased Jannock through the narrow ex-lock and then swung her
> right round to moor up at the water point to fill the tank.

I'm not sure it's actully an ex-lock, even though it looks like one.  That 
bit of cut was opened in living memory (well, in mine),although it was a 
re-instatement of the original line before the other branch of the branh 
through its own lock was built.   But unless the levels were changed at some 
time, I dont see how there could have been a lock where you;re taking about.

Well, unless it was a stop-lock to separate the waters of two different 
canal companies.  I don't recall offhand which company built the Kingswood 
Branch.  I seem to think it was the Stratford CC, in which case ths top lock 
should have been at the Kingswood end rather than the Lapworth end.  SO 
parhaps the branch was built by the Warwick & Birmingham.   Anybody know?

Mike Stevens
narrowboat Felis Catus III
web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk

No man is an island.  So is Man. 


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