Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
Leeds and Liverpool Canal
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Lock 12, Wigan Flight
Photo: Rev David Long
Photo: Rev David Long
Views: 249
Item #: 34952
Item #: 34952
A different kind of paddle gear can be seen here. It's not all that easy to see and figure out how it works - but as far as I can see the gate paddle is worked by levers - rather than the ratchet gear usually used. You can see the rod leading up at an angle from the pivot point above the paddle - it seems to be raised by using the lever on the beam, but it's not a system I've seen on the present-day system, so I'm probably wrong.
Another timepix image.
Another timepix image.
Comment by: . Ozy . on 18th March 2024 at 19:15
I remember a couple of locks in that area having lever operated ground paddles in the 70s . I think they were referred to as “ Jack Johnsons “ .
Comment by: Rev David Long on 19th March 2024 at 09:25
I knew those paddles as jack cloughs - there’s a pic in the Album of one being put back on its pivot pin when we passed through Wigan in 1985
Comment by: Colin Traynor on 19th March 2024 at 11:35
How bleak and foreboding it looks compared to todays lack of slag heaps greenery.
Comment by: . Ozy . on 19th March 2024 at 15:29
Yeah , Jack Cloughs , that’s it .
I seem to be confusing them with those mortar bombs that the Germans used to lob into the British front line trenches .
I think there may still be a couple of this type of ground paddle on the Rufford branch .
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