Thames Young Mariners, Ham Lake
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Thames Young Mariners, Ham Lake
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 9 Sep 2012
Formerly gravel workings, the lock gates are the upper gates of a full pound lock for barge access, whose lower gates have now been removed. It seems to have been built in about the 1920s. Navigation through the lock seems to have been abandoned, the gates are loosely tethered together, so that the current function seems to be to take in the tide and pen it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.438034
Longitude
-0.327882