Will Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway my view is that where a lock previously had bollards then these >should be reinstated, in the same positions and of the same >design/construction as originally used; other than this new bollards >should not be installed.
I think that's a good place to start, but there are some problems. 1. I believe that on many locks the original bollards were wooden. They rotted away (often many years ago), and tend not to have been replaced, perhaps in living memory. So we may not know whether a given lock had bollards, and, if it did, where they were located. 2. Although I generally assume that the designers of the waterways knew what they were doing, and as a result that their designs should be adhered to during maintenance, sometimes they did get it wrong. In some cases, they may have done that with bollards. So, perhaps we shouldn't be too dogmatic on never changing anything. (But then, I think of all the wretched changes that have been made ...). Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
