{"id":25230,"date":"2006-09-02T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/09\/02\/abingdon-lock\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T00:28:00","slug":"abingdon-lock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25230","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ablock1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ablock1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Lock Keepers are similar to Light House keepers. They live in a remote place away from civilisation, and care for boats.<\/p>\n<p>Lock Keepers also sell ice creams and post cards in the summer , and appear to compete with other Lock Keepers to have the best display of busy lizzies.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ablock5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ablock5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>High water and flooding can be a problem. In 1947, the Lock Keeper at Abingdon  had to get another high-water mark sign fitted to show that it had been almost the equal of 1894. That was before this cottage was build by The Thames Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ablock3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ablock3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is the little shack from where the Lock keeper sells ice-cream and post cards to us land lubbers. He serves the boating fraternity by keeping a water point, refuse disposal, elsan\/sewage disposal and  maps and information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ablock02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ablock02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Lock makes this boat and the swans, passing through, look small. But it is a much smaller lock than Iffley upstream. The current Lock was rebuilt by Thames Conservancy in 1905<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/ablock04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/ablock04.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here the swans float out, with the boat,  towards Abingdon a half mile away. The day generally begins at 9, and ends at about 6 for the Lock Keeper. Most boats have moored for their evening meal by then.<\/p>\n<p>The Lock machinery is hydraulic and does not need brute strength anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Not far away, in <a href=\"http:\/\/abingdon2006.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/tragedy-at-swift-ditch.html\">swift ditch<\/a> ,are the walls of one of the earliest chamber locks on the Thames &#8211; built in the 1600s. Perhaps the earliest surviving remnant of a chamber lock in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lock Keepers are similar to Light House keepers. They live in a remote place away from civilisation, and care for boats. Lock Keepers also sell ice creams and post cards in the summer , and appear to compete with other Lock Keepers to have the best display of busy lizzies.High water and flooding can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}