A workman stands at the bottom of a drained canal lock during renovation. Carpenters Road Lock in the Olympic Park, London

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Part of a £ million project to restore the lock at Carpenters Road in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London. Carpenters Road Lock is significant from an engineering point of view, as it had the only ‘double radial lock gates’ in the country. Built in the 1930s this design included two convex-shaped gates that lifted up vertically to enable boats to pass through. When restored the lock gates will provide the opportunity to navigate from the waterways around the former Olympic Stadium to Waterworks River, which in turn runs south to Three Mills Lock then out to the River Thames.

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Size: 3095px × 4330px
Location: Olympic Park, Stratford, London, UK
Photo credit: © Katharine R Rose / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: canal, carpenters, double, drained, gates, historic, lock, london, maintenance, olympic, park, radial, renovation, road, stratford, waterways, workman