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Posted on: Thursday October 29, 2020 at: 11:49 am
A few days ago we came up from the River Severn onto the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal at Stourport. A journey we have already done several times, in both directions. However, this time was a little different. There are two sets of locks. One is for narrowboats and consists of two staircase locks – 4 locks in total
Going up the lock
The other is for widebeams, as there is a basin at Stourport, where off loading would have taken place in bygone days, typically from narrowboats onto bigger boats that would then go down the river.
Nearing the top of the lock
However, the narrow locks are currently closed for repairs, which meant we had to use the wide (and deep) locks. Not something we have ever done here before and it is a good job there were volunteers on hand to help us through as the gates are very heavy.
Yes, that’s me modelling the hi-vis jacket.
We are now pretty much at the end of the season, and hours of access are reduced, so we had to time our trip right to avoid sitting around for a day or two, waiting for the locks to be open for use.
That’s more locks that you have done but we haven’t!Enjoy the rest of your trip.best wishes,