Keeping an eye on things
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Keeping an eye on things
Image: © Graham Horn Taken: 2 Mar 2008
This is the lock-keeper's base at Marsh Lock, just upstream of Henley. Each Thames lock has something similar, from where the lock-keeper (properly called the weir-keeper) can manage operations. Above the lock a much grander building keeps an eye on all the proceedings too.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.528907
Longitude
-0.88477