Grants Lock Oxford Canal

[Scholar Gypsy]

Yes I know there are two paddles at each end of this lock ...

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Oxford Canal
Starts At: Lock 30, Grants Lock
Ends At: Lock 30, Grants Lock

Thursday 7 September 2017 10:00 until further notice

Type: Navigation Closure 
Reason: Repair

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Original message:

 

A paddle at Lock 30, Grants Lock is broken

Lock is inoperable and Navigation is closed

A team are organising the repair of the paddle

Notice will be updated when further information becomes available

[Athy]

That's good. I hope that this team will turn their attention also to the locks above Cropredy, where at least one paddle (two, I think) has/have been brok* for some months now.

 

* A past participle common in Derbyshire, and perhaps elsewhere.

[mrsmelly]

Supposedly reopening today.

[matty40s]

18 minutes ago, Athy said:

That's good. I hope that this team will turn their attention also to the locks above Cropredy, where at least one paddle (two, I think) has/have been brok* for some months now.

 

* A past participle common in Derbyshire, and perhaps elsewhere.

It's shouting to be fixed.

 

17 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Supposedly reopening today.

Hasn't been shut.

[Athy]

Tee-hee. Was that your handiwork?

[billS]

Its been like that for at least 4 months over the summer - broken I mean, not transformed into an artwork.

Edited September 7, 2017 by billS

[matty40s]

3 minutes ago, Athy said:

Tee-hee. Was that your handiwork?

Was bored waiting for it to fill.

[Dave Payne]

Half the locks on the oxford are in crap condition...

[MtB]

1 hour ago, Dave Payne said:

Half the locks on the oxford are in crap condition...

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so cannot afford to maintain the system. 

[mrsmelly]

9 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so cannot afford to maintain the system. 

[Athy]

10 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so cannot afford to maintain the system. 

[matty40s]

14 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so can afford to make crap poetry into cast iron plaques at Cropredy lock. 

Or let contractors do this. 

 

 

Edited September 7, 2017 by matty40s

[dccruiser]

17 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so cannot afford to maintain the system. 

Cheap at half the price! .... double it at least and bring in public floggings over balance beams for anyone dropping paddles rather than lowering them ... that'd sort the devils out! 

Rick

[Dave Payne]

1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's because crt sell licenses and moorings far too cheaply so cannot afford to maintain the system. 

No they spend all the dosh on locks on the decent canals, like the ashby!

[cuthound]

4 minutes ago, Dave Payne said:

No they spend all the dosh on locks on the decent canals, like the ashby!

Getaway, they don't even maintain the gates on the locks in the Ashby, let alone the paddles 

[Athy]

2 minutes ago, cuthound said:

Getaway, they don't even maintain the gates on the locks in the Ashby, let alone the paddles 

Damn' right, that one at the entrance has had no gates for years. It's lucky that the water is at the same level on both sides of it.

[cuthound]

1 minute ago, Athy said:

Damn' right, that one at the entrance has had no gates for years. It's lucky that the water is at the same level on both sides of it.

It didn't used to be, but it's all drained into the Coventry now.

Lucky it didn't cause a flood! 

[Scholar Gypsy]

Grants Lock now reopened. Email from CRT.