lock keeper

When built, the flight was designed to be operated by two lock keepers.

The camp was then divided into 18 plots and run by the lock keepers.

The lock keepers walked away, leaving the boatmen to sort things out.

This would seem to cover the action of the lock keepers in this case.

They include a small octagonal toll house, which was used by the lock keeper.

Some locks are operated (or at least supervised) by professional lock keepers.

The lock keeper emerged from the control cabin and vigorously motioned us to come ahead.

It still has its heavy wooden beams which the lock keeper uses to open and close the gates.

The company agreed, providing that the lock keeper was suitably qualified.

Not only was the canal fairly unique in being owned by a woman, but it also had a female lock keeper.

There was a lock keeper at the weir and a walkway across which is the precedent for the current bridge.

Traditionally, the lock keeper lived on-site, often in a small purpose-built cottage.

Passage is controlled by a lock keeper.

During the first four years of the show, the given address for the house was number 2, Lock Keepers' Cottages.

The Lock keepers house is similarly listed as being of special interest in the architectural and technical interest categories.

The lock keeper then has to close the floodgate preventing through navigation until the floods subside.

The lock was provided with a lock keeper and tolls were exacted for its use.

Volunteer assistant lock keepers are being sought to work on the River Thames over the summer.

An old canal lock keepers cottage also survives.

The original lock keepers cottages remain.

After his return he obtained a position as lock keeper in recognition of his participation in the expedition.

Barry Whitelock, the lock keeper, after twenty years based here is now almost synonymous with the flight.

Albert lock (1848) and lock keepers cottage.

The lock keeper recalled Dr Grant saying that when he went to the island, he felt it was like going a million miles away.

The alternative name, Sutton Stop, arises from the name of a family which provided several lock keepers there in the nineteenth century.