Steve wrote: > > A second lock, that's interesting. I will have to go look around > > there to see if I can find any evidence of where it was :) > Neil Added:
> Pictures please! > You can see the two chambers on Old Maps. > AFAICR the bottom chamber is beside the cottage to the back > of the D-D pub and now has a pumping station built on > it....dunno about the other chamber. > ISTR that I had some video of pumping stn. Comparing the 1903 and 1952 maps on the Old Maps site (www.old-maps.co.uk) with the view on Google Earth there are some interesting changes. The 1903 map shows two locks, one close to the river, and one a short distance further north. By 1952 the northern lock has gone, but the southern one remains, the road bridge over the Nene has been rebuilt further east, but everything else looks pretty much the same. Google Earth shows that since 1952 a much wider drain has been built which divides 250 yards to the north. This uses the original Thorney River junction and appears to incorporate the original southern lock chamber, but the northern lock has been obliterated by the new channel works. I have overlaid an extract of the 1903 map (showing both locks) on the current aerial to show how things have changed in the last century, and put a copy at http://www.grandunioncanalcarrying.co.uk/misc/ThorneyRiver.jpg David Mack
