Lock keeper
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For the computer network security device, see Lock-Keeper.
A Lock keeper, or lock operator looks after a canal or river lock, operating it and if necessary maintaining it or organizing its maintenance. Traditionally, the lock keeper lived on-site, often in a small purpose-built cottage. The occupation is dying out. Many previously manned locks are now unmanned.
The Kentucky River Museum is located in a former lock operator's dwelling.
[edit] Quotations
- The floral tastes of the lock-keeper generally make Sonning Lock very bright and gay.
- — Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- Is there a spot more lovely than the rest,
- By art improved, by nature truly blest?
- A noble river at its base running,
- It is a little village known as Sonning.
- — James Sadler, Sonning lock keeper (1845–1885).
[edit] External links
- Lock Keepers at Gloucester
- Lock-keeper's house, Newforge from the BBC
- The Queen and the lock keeper, Coventry Canal, 23 August 2005
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