We were coming down from Kiveton to Shireoaks (Chesterfield Canal) yesterday on Seth Ellis and I happened to mention to the lengthsman that I'd seen planning application forms relating to the locks and balance beams (which are all listed monuments on that stretch) and asked if he knew anything about them.
Apparently, BW are fixing yellow and black warning signs to all the lock balance beans warning boaters of the presence of things like cills in locks with little pictograms. Because the locks on the Chesterfield are listed, there's been a concession made to permit black and white signs to be used rather than black and yellow. Surely this just another example of a waste of resource? Intuition suggest that by the time any boater got that far, they would have been fully aware of the presence of cills in locks, helped no doubt by the six-inch high letters on the sides and insides of the locks. Is this signage practice happening elsewhere? (Apologies if I missed an earlier thread) -- David Morris Tripboat skipper, Seth Ellis, Retford http://www.sethellis.org.uk
