--- On Thu, 4/6/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Lock keeper??
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 4 June, 2009, 10:56 AM
It may not be relevant but there used to be a retired BW employee who lived at?
the top of the flight and who gave the impression that he was the lock keeper.
Certainly, if you gave the impression you thought he was, he never corrected
you.
DaveD
I remember seeing him dressed in blue overalls & walking like John Wayne on
acid up & down the flight like he was the best thing since sliced bread.
I think he was a reflected glory merchant. I certainly never saw him carry out
any duties whatsoever!
Anna used to use the tiny office abutting the house @ the top lock. In her day
she used to unlock the flight @ 08:00 [a big chain used to fasten the bottom
gates @ The Fox. Then she would cycle up to the top Norwood lock & undo *that
one* for the day]
I would have thought it was a cheaper option than the BWB key required present
system of locking-up. Mind you, no wage is required for *that* I suppose.
Barry
Nb ineverratedjohnwayneanywayhewasaonedimensionalactor
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