[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dave Wedd laid this down on his screen : > >> BW have now mounted the old Hillmorton cast iron lock gates as a display > >> item below the flight on the side of a mound. > > > > Someone told me the other day that they had seen cast iron lock gates > > that were original from the construction of the canal, and still in > > use after 180 years or whatever. I think it was somewhere in Europe. > > > > Dave. > > There ore several on the Oxford Canal, there is one set at Claydon and > I think there are still some at Hillmorton > I thought the ones now on display at Hillmorton were the last ones in use, and were replaced a few years ago because it was found that repair was impracticable.
Martin L
