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20 photos and 14 illustrations tagged lock, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.
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- mechanicalcurator
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- pubplacelondon
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- ireland
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Recent uploads
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Third Lock, River Lagan, Belfast, Co. Antrim from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2019
The centre of Ireland from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded September 2018
Boyne Valley: Lake House, Boyne Valley, Co. Louth from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded February 2017
British Library digitised image from page 191 of "The Story of a Feather" from British Library uploaded July 2016
Navan (An Uaimh), Co. Meath, Ireland from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded February 2015
British Library digitised image from page 400 of "British Battles on Land and Sea" from British Library uploaded December 2013
British Library digitised image from page 161 of "Rambles in Galloway. (Second edition.) L.P" from British Library uploaded December 2013
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Navan (An Uaimh), Co. Meath, Ireland
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Traffic Jam
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Niall McAuley said:
Despite the title, this is not a canal lock, it's the lock at the weir on the Shannon at Athlone.
You can see the very same foreground stonework, water level (in that notch) and metal lock-gate-opening gizmo in my (relatively) recent photo, here:
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Niall McAuley Thanks for saving our (my!) blushes there. Have changed description, and in return, can tell you that the gizmo is officially a gate winch... So is that the canal at all?
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Niall McAuley said:
No, it's just that lock you can see in the photo above, there's no canal at all. See an aerial view from Google maps linked below, the lock is to the left of the weir: maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.422947,-7.939392&...
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Niall McAuley Thanks! Obliterated all mention of canal from tags...
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Stuart said:
Here's one of the gate winches without it's coverings and a close up of a plate inscription from another. You can see the winch could have been operated by one or two people and it originally used chains. Thomas Rhodes was Chief Engineer on the harbour project, the technical guy in charge.
