Lock keeper

Lock keeper

A Lock keeper, or lock operator looks after a canal or river lock, operating it and if necessary maintaining it or organizing its maintenance. Traditionally, the lock keeper lived on-site, often in a small purpose-built cottage. The occupation is dying out. Many previously manned locks are now unmanned.

The Kentucky River Museum is located in a former lock operator's dwelling.

Quotations

:"The floral tastes of the lock-keeper generally make Sonning Lock very bright and gay.":: — Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

:"Is there a spot more lovely than the rest," :"By art improved, by nature truly blest?" :"A noble river at its base running," :"It is a little village known as Sonning.":: — James Sadler, Sonning lock keeper (1845–1885).

External links

* [http://www.gloucesterdocks.me.uk/people/lockkeepers.htm Lock Keepers at Gloucester]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/restoration/2004/ni_loch_keepers_house_01.shtml Lock-keeper's house, Newforge] from the BBC
* [http://www.waterscape.com/news/nid574 The Queen and the lock keeper] , Coventry Canal, 23 August 2005


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