Entry: 1st July 2018
With the lock moorings completed, new top and bottom gates have now been fitted and we look forward to removing the stop planks, perhaps this week, returning the lock into water.
The paddle gear has been fitted to the gates and ground paddle sluices. Work continues fitting lock furniture, i.e. hand rails, balance beam steps and handles etc.
An opening day is planned, but as yet, we don’t have a date – suggest you keep a watchful eye on our Twitter and Facebook pages for this.
Work will soon commence on Lock 14. The grass has been cut in the field along the line of which the temporary access road is planned, and the archaeological survey completed. Mercian Archaeology hope to return to the site at a later stage to do a more in depth survey with community involvement, as there is some interesting archaeology nearby. Mercian are the company who’ve recorded Lock 15 throughout.
