Fall of the middle level sluice on the west bank of the Ouse, about four miles from Lynn, Norfolk, 1862. '...tidal water found its way under the front apron of this sluice, eleven o'clock the two arches gave commissioners have been making great make a dam across the main up to the present time, although many hundred men and horses have been employed, nothing has yet been accomplished to stop the flow of the is conjectured that from 10,000 to 20,000 acres of rich arable land will be entirely a calamity has not befallen
Fall of the middle level sluice on the west bank of the Ouse, about four miles from Lynn, Norfolk, 1862. '...tidal water found its way under the front apron of this sluice, eleven o'clock the two arches gave commissioners have been making great make a dam across the main up to the present time, although many hundred men and horses have been employed, nothing has yet been accomplished to stop the flow of the is conjectured that from 10,000 to 20,000 acres of rich arable land will be entirely a calamity has not befallen this part of the fens and marsh land for centuries, and thousands of people will be is said that the whole country around looks like a vast sluice was designed by Messrs. Walker and Burgess, was built by Mr. Stephen Ballard being the resident engineer. The New Drain, which is eleven miles long, was also laid out by Messrs. Walker and work has been looked upon as one of the great engineering works in the fens, and the expense of rebuilding the sluice, bridges, making embankment across main drain, repairing breaches, making compensation for damage done, is laid at £ 100,000.' From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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