Talk:Anderton Boat Lift

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An Engineering Icon?[edit]

I removed the following section from the main article, because it is unsourced and POV:

An interesting diversion is to consider how the appearance of the Anderton Lift relates to the concept of engineering elegance.

There is a way of thinking, probably misguided, that if something looks well, it probably is well. However, the Anderton Lift has to look like one of the most inellegant engineered structures that one might ever encounter. The photographs cannot begin to suggest just how ugly an engineered structure this is; it becomes fully apparent only on first-hand observation. Its ugliness is an aspect of the structure that makes it even more remarkable.

This is not a detraction from its worth, nor a slur. Indeed, it is something that may make the Anderton lift even more remarkable as a piece of mechanical and civil engineering. It shows that it need not look well to work well!

If a third-party discussion of the appearance of the boat lift can be found, then a summary of the contents of this source, with citation, could be included. Without this, this is a statement of the contributor's point of view, and so is unencyclopaedic. Incidentally, the original boat lift, before the addition of the A-frames when it was converted to electric operation, looked much more elegant than it does today. Gandalf61 07:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The bulk of the article is ready to go forward as a GAC, but we need much more on the restoration. Mayalld 06:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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What year did the restoration start?[edit]

What year did the restoration start? I notice that the article is internally inconsistent: 2000 and 2001 Springnuts (talk) 20:00, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]