A pair of guillotine gates.

At the approach to Kings Norton Junction where the Stratford meets the Worcester & Birmingham canal. When private companies ran the canals they didn't want to share water in times of shortage so the gates would be lowered, thereby completely separating the two canals.

Day 36 - cover me, I'm going in!

June 20th 2013
0 locks, 200 in total. Today has not been as we had been led to believe, for whatever reason, and we're slightly relieved after last night's golf ball incident - the golf course is actually 'between owners' and closed so our unfriendly slicers were trespassing anyway. • We had rain overnight and early morning but, other than few spots during the ... read more

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