Entry 10th March 2021 Author & upload TJ Back to work at Lock 14 this week following Lockdown 3. There’s talk of this being the last national lockdown in this worldwide Covid-19 Pandemic. Let’s hope we begin to return to a degree of normality during 2021, and that mutated strains of the virus can be […]
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Entry 9th December 2020 Author & upload TJ In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, this is still having an impact on working practices throughout the Society’s activities. With the exception of ‘same household’ boat trips on one day, none of our fundraising events were able to take place this year. With news of a […]
Entry 10th October 2020 Bottom Gates Lock 14 Back on site for some weeks, both top and bottom gates have been fitted. Canal and River Trust gate technicians led this installation, assisted by GCS volunteers. Volunteers have been busy fitting lock and gate furniture. Like all jobs, the showy aspect of lifting the gates into […]
Entry 27th June 2020 I don’t know how history will report Covid-19, but it’s certainly thrown a spanner in the works at Lock 14! The lock gates were due to have been installed at the end of May, and we’d likely have been thinking towards a celebration of another successful rebuild, following on from that […]
Entry: 2nd February 2020 With brickwork of Lock 14 to full height, work has focused on the coping stones and the myriad of jobs around the periphery of the lock. There has been a delay in providing the anchor blocks; the quarry having encountered a poor seam, as mentioned in the previous post. These are […]
Entry: 15th October 2019 There’s more to this lock restoration project than bricks and mortar – although it has to be said – these do play a significant part! We’ve been full on running events throughout the summer, culminating in our annual Discovery Day on the 13th October. With £95,000 in match funding to raise, […]
Entry: 6th July 2019 Lock chamber walls continue to grow 600mm at a time. They currently stand at 3m, with approx. 1.4m to go. The weather has been largely kind, but a week of incessant rain during June did require the most recent concrete pour to be rescheduled. Volunteers now have a view! Having built […]
Entry: 15th April 2019 A different approach, with experience gained from the rebuild of Lock 15, is being adopted for rebuilding of Lock 14. We’ve dispensed with firstly building the walls with concrete blocks – deciding to go straight in with the bricks. The lock walls are built up 600mm at a time, the concrete […]
Entry: 17th January 2019 Access road, bywash, dams installed and the lock pumped out, work could begin to clear the extensive amount of rubble and silt from the lock chamber. Stock fencing and gating along the temporary access road to the work site This lock was found to be in poorer condition than even that […]
Entry: 5th November 2018 With Lock 15 consigned to history, we’ve now taken root at Lock 14. Volunteers of the Waterway Recovery Group building the bywash Lock 14 GCS volunteers building storage bays for building materials The Waterway Recovery Group have held five, week long canal camps at Lock 14. Working alongside Grantham Canal Society […]
