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Newlay Lock

Description:
Undated. View looking north between Leeds-Liverpool canal to the right and the River Aire to the left. A barge is going through the lock in the bottom right corner.

User Comments:

Name:

Samuel Wadkin

Comment:

The lock mentioned is actually a swing bridge. My father and his family lived in one of the houses next to the bridge (The Maltkins) when he was a child in the 1920's. When a barge was spotted being hauled along the canal by horse, his Mum would rush out and open the bridge so that the barge would not need to slow down. In return, the barge men would leave several large lumps of coal on the bridge My father remembers the horses often being treated very badly: The barge men would pelt them with lumps of coal to get speed up. Sometimes the horse would fall into the canal if the rope suddenly came tight. There was a sort of slipway by the bridge where the horse would be hauled back onto the towpath to be pelted with coal again.

Date:

07-Dec-2009

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