David Morris has brought this to us :
> 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)
On EA waters "Nene,Ouse" there are signs welcoming you to whatever lock
it is and there are between 6 and 8 warnings from No Swimming, No
Diving to look after the children not forgetting unguarded edge and
slippery surface
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