Autherley Stop Lock & Junction
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Autherley Junction is at the
Autherley Junction is at the junction of the Shropshire Union and Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canals.
Autherley Stop Lock is another of those annoying locks with a fall of six inches serving no other purpose than preventing rival canal companies stealing each others water.
Thinking we were being polite we waited to see if anyone else wanted to use the Stop Lock before we set it in our favour. There was and what we got was some annoyingly slow bugger who decided that the top gate was stuck due to silt and, in attempt to cure the problem, appeared to mount it. Kinky or what?
Anyroadup it took the bugger several ice ages to bring his boat out of the lock before slothing off into the wild blue yonder. We can only assume he was worried about scratching his boat on the silt. Twat.
Autherley Stop Lock is another of those annoying locks with a fall of six inches serving no other purpose than preventing rival canal companies stealing each others water.
Thinking we were being polite we waited to see if anyone else wanted to use the Stop Lock before we set it in our favour. There was and what we got was some annoyingly slow bugger who decided that the top gate was stuck due to silt and, in attempt to cure the problem, appeared to mount it. Kinky or what?
Anyroadup it took the bugger several ice ages to bring his boat out of the lock before slothing off into the wild blue yonder. We can only assume he was worried about scratching his boat on the silt. Twat.
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