Let’s face it – there are some people on the river who regard locks as an interruption to their day – an annoying waste of time when they could be charging along the river in their gin palaces, breaking the speed limit and causing a good deal of nuisance.
Month: May 2013
Set sail on a new pastime
Ashford’s Queen Mary Sailing Club pushes the boat out with dinghy for aspiring disabled sailors
Got lock and lane woes? Take a different tack…
Following on from last week’s Riverwatch in which I outlined an idea for closing off Walton Lane at the Walton Bridge end that was put forward by Doug Myers from Weybridge, I’ve had a note from Nick Pollard, the chairman of the Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society.
Let’s go back to the future
Block off river crossing at Walton Lane to traffic — there was no link in the ’50s, says resident Doug Myers
Locks: The key moment
I went along to the River Users’ Group Eight meeting on Tuesday at the Thames Motor Yacht Club in Molesey and was delighted to hear chairman Mike Shefras announce that after a lot of haggling with the Environment Agency the group had secured an undertaking that no more lock houses would be let for the next year.