Memorial seat beside Marston Doles lock
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Memorial seat beside Marston Doles lock
Image: © Andy F Taken: 20 Sep 2009
This seat is beside Oxford Canal lock 16 at Marston Doles. It commemorates Esme Dowling, a popular and long-standing canal employee who worked as a lengthsman and lock-keeper on this section during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The plate on the seatback reads: 'This seat is erected to the memory of Esme Dowling who served the South Oxford Canal for 31 years'. Below those words is a line from Binyon's 'For The Fallen': 'They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old'.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.22051
Longitude
-1.321766