Why one lock different?

If there is just one lock failure on the Aylesbury Arm, I for one will be happy, as happy as I will be if that is the only failure country wide, writes Maffi.

I do find it difficult to understand why just that one lock of 17 should have been built differently, as Alan Fincher says. I would be happy to see proof that all other locks were built correctly, however until such time it will not stop me from feeling a sense of foreboding when I drop down in a lock, and I would hazard a guess I wont be the only one.

Can't agree

I simply cannot agree with Alan Fincher that the wet weather is solely to blame. Is he stating that in the last 200 odd years we haven't had weather that wet? With the amount of water that drains out of lock walls when descending, one would have to be a fool to believe that such water is just permeating through the soil and not collecting in hollows behind the walls while the locks are full.

Maybe it is time for CaRT to stop cutting lumps out of lock gate beams in the name of poetry, but prove to us exactly what the situation is behind the walls of our locks.