As part of a major winter fundraising appeal, the Canal & River Trust are carrying out essential repairs to Leeds River Lock 1 in Leeds city centre.
Ruth Garratt, Heritage Advisor for the Canal & River Trust, discusses with The Yorkshire Post.
The lock has been drained to enable repairs to be carried out to both sets of wooden lock gates, the lock floor, stop plank grooves, ground paddles and the lock walls. The work is part of the Trust’s annual programme of maintenance and repairs totalling in excess of £60 million this year.
Ruth Garratt, Heritage Advisor for the Canal & River Trust, discusses with The Yorkshire Post.
The lock has been drained to enable repairs to be carried out to both sets of wooden lock gates, the lock floor, stop plank grooves, ground paddles and the lock walls. The work is part of the Trust’s annual programme of maintenance and repairs totalling in excess of £60 million this year.
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00:00My name's Ruth Garrett, I'm the Regional Heritage Advisor for Canal and River Trust and I'm
00:10in the 250-year-old Leeds River Lock at Granary Wharf in the city centre. It's a Grade 2 star
00:17listed structure and the Canal and River Trust are in here on our winter stoppage season
00:22to do essential repairs and maintenance work so we can get it operational. We've de-watered
00:28the lock, we're just about to undertake the conservation repair works that are needed
00:34to make sure we've got watertight seals. It's a really urgent project, something that as
00:39a charity we do all the time in order to make sure our waterways stay alive and open for
00:46operational purposes. So the repair work that we're doing at the Leeds River Lock here today
00:56is we have to put the stop plank grooves in so we can make sure we can de-water for
01:02essential maintenance in the future. We're addressing the ground paddle works as well
01:06so we've got some timber conservation repairs going ahead and also we're going to address
01:10the lock floor as well. So we're looking at all the original fabric and replacing like
01:16for like.