Canal Restoration at Llanthony Lock Gloucester

Restoration of Llanthony begins
The Canal Trust put together a programme of work to tidy the site up over the next couple of years and to use it as a shop window for the Trust within the City of Gloucester in the future. Over the coming months exploratory surveys will be carried out and from these, developing specific work programmes which will not only stop the site from deteriorating any further but will start the long haul in realising its full potential.

There will be some preventative maintenance on the cottages to ensure that they do not deteriorate for the winter. Other priorities include the creation of car parking facilities for volunteers and visitors to the site, and starting a regime to eradicate the Japanese Knotweed, which is prevalent on the northern section by the lock.

In the longer term, all the undergrowth from around the lock will be cleared to stop any further deterioration of the brickwork, and the footbridge will need some attention.

Llanthony Lock - The overgrown lock looking north

Llanthony Lock - The cottages across the lock

Llanthony Lock -The River Severn at Llanthony

Llanthony Lock - The footbridge across the river to the lock.

Llanthony Lock - Clearing the undergrowth

Llanthony Lock - A pivot plate unearthed from the old swing bridge.

Llanthony Lock - The overgrown lock looking south.

Llanthony Lock - A mile plate discovered in the undergrowth.

Llanthony Lock - Looking through the lock

Llanthony Lock - Alder trees planted by the river

Llanthony Lock - A new gate is fitted to the footbridge

Llanthony Lock - Work starts on clearing alongside the lock

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