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  • Thumbnail for Netherton Reservoir
    sluices near the tunnel when it was required. The engine was installed in 1840, and drove a scoop wheel. A cottage was provided for the sluice keeper...
    8 KB (829 words) - 00:31, 30 August 2022
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    and several smaller workshops and cottages. The sluice which powered the waterwheel and sluice keepers cottage still exist. The hamstone Market House on...
    16 KB (1,826 words) - 16:45, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Parrett
    and several smaller workshops and cottages. The sluice which powered the waterwheel and sluice keeper's cottage still exist. Further south the river flows...
    125 KB (13,728 words) - 00:11, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richmond Lock and Footbridge
    is a lock, rising and falling low-tide barrage integrating controlled sluices and pair of pedestrian bridges on the River Thames in southwest London...
    14 KB (1,359 words) - 13:01, 22 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lock keeper
    gates and sluices can still be operated by use of the pedestal cranks at either end of the lock chamber. The floral tastes of the lock-keeper generally...
    11 KB (1,408 words) - 03:59, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wisbech Canal
    Pogson, the Wisbech sluice keeper, was accused of having deliberately broken up the ice by letting in water, he was chased to the keeper's cottage and a crowd...
    16 KB (1,896 words) - 07:32, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parrett Iron Works
    was built of Ham stone in the 18th century. The sluice which powered the waterwheel and sluice keepers cottage still exist. Carey's mill was unoccupied...
    6 KB (452 words) - 20:39, 28 October 2023
  • comics artist (died 1992) 17 January – Hendrik Geeraert (born 1863), sluice-keeper 23 February – Joris Helleputte (born 1852), architect and politician...
    5 KB (456 words) - 10:57, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elsterwerda–Grödel raft canal
    which had long been absent, were rebuilt as part of this effort. The sluice keeper's house in Prösen, which had been demolished in 1954 due to its deteriorating...
    42 KB (5,463 words) - 07:08, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delfzijl
    province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Delfzijl was a sluice between the Delf and the Ems, which became fortified settlement in the 16th...
    28 KB (3,070 words) - 15:08, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Orchardleigh Estate
    estate also contains a bridge incorporating a sluice, a semicircular bridge, a garden house, a keepers lodge and a stables and coachhouse, which all date...
    10 KB (1,266 words) - 05:52, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Cam
    built sluices at Jesus Green, Chesterton, Baits Bite and Clayhithe. Most of the tolls were collected at Clayhithe. Prior to 1722, Denver sluice had been...
    32 KB (3,795 words) - 06:11, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for River Weaver
    nearby, and any surplus was released into the Mersey through the Weaver sluices, which were located just upstream of the junction. A notable feature is...
    50 KB (6,385 words) - 17:05, 23 September 2024
  • Meaning "from the locks / sluice" it could have a toponymic origin or could be a metonymic occupational surname (the lock keeper). Alternative spellings...
    2 KB (252 words) - 19:59, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caversham Lock
    Thames Navigation Commissioners built the original lock in 1778. Additional sluices north of View Island and Heron Island form the whole weir complex. A footbridge...
    7 KB (682 words) - 14:36, 27 September 2023
  • him into the river. Tom's father finds and pulls Freddie's body from the sluice, not realising that his drowning is not accidental. But that is the conclusion...
    8 KB (1,101 words) - 20:58, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slusen, Copenhagen
    Slusen (literally "The Sluice") is a lock in the South Harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark. It regulates water levels and inhibits unfavourable currents in...
    4 KB (494 words) - 20:37, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture
    Fishponds were located next to the mouth of a stream, so by opening a sluice gate the pondkeeper provided the fish with water rich in nutrients that...
    12 KB (1,405 words) - 18:04, 30 October 2024
  • "from the locks / sluice". As such, it could have a toponymic origin or could be a metonymic occupational surname (the lock keeper). Variant forms are...
    2 KB (234 words) - 01:58, 13 April 2018
  • Stortford, in the County of Hertford to join the River Cam near Clayhithe Sluice, in the County of Cambridge, with a navigable Branch or Cut from the said...
    130 KB (1,552 words) - 21:00, 4 November 2024
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