Allington Lock Website. Updates.

[oldgit]

http://www.allingtonlock.co.uk/
Latest developments and reports on work keep the navigation in good order.
Nice pictures of "our" shiney new dredger.
The redevelopment of the area around Town lock will be a welcome addition in the stock of decent Medway moorings.

 

[Murv]

Passed the new dredger on a dingy run up river yesterday, very smart!
Also a half sunken yacht just downstream of the residential houseboat.

 

[oldgit]

The winter usually produces a casualty or two.Suspect it is down to owner regards raising the wreck and if not insured sometimes left to break up over tine.
Doubt the EA gets involved unless hazard to navigation.?
The upper Mudway is extremely fortunate in having so many improvements regards moorings and facilities over past 10 years or so, especially in light of financial situation.
Be nice if they would jack up East Farleigh bridge by a metre so we could all enjoy the fun. ?

 

[Murv]

It's not a hazard to navigation at the moment, although the chains securing the thing to the bankside look to be under a fair bit of tension. I'd imagine it wouldn't stay in place for long if the river floods again before it's raised.

I think we're exceptionally lucky to have the Medway so readily available, and at a low cost.
Always exceptional, and very friendly service from the lock keepers at Allington as well
And, yes, a small increase in bridge heights would be very welcome!

 

[oldgit]

Where is that exactly...Felt sure you need some sort of PP before a permanent mooring can be constructed or were not allowed full stop to build anything on the river bank.The bank is slowly being engulfed in a strip development of tatty scaffold n plastic drum landing stages.

Worse two or three down round Tovil already.One of which sunk several summers ago.
At some point we are going to get some real flooding which may well solve this little problem.
The same chap who sold the speculative land plots near the cement works at Cuxton is responsible for selling the plots up at Tovil.On his website it went into some detail how to evade the EA rules and regulations.
Seems to remind me of something else,exactly what not sure

Fortunately the local and parish Councils in Cuxton put a stop to the erection of some pretty awful shacks and the like and told them to remove all the buildings and other shanty town junk that had been put up.
Most of the boats moored there have now ether sunk or been abandoned.
It looks like a bombsite,but is slowly reverting back to nature.

 

[Murv]

This is roughly halfway between Allington and East Farleigh locks, a couple of hundred yards downstream from the large houseboat that is moored there. I certainly don't remember seeing it there in the Summer so it must be fairly new.

The guy selling the land has signs up advertising the fact, I see what you mean about his website...
The lighter is also afloat and up for sale, with free winter mooring.

 

[oldgit]

The lighter is also afloat and up for sale, with free winter mooring.

Cheers Murv...............clever wheeze from the present owner..its going to cost a lot of money to get that old lighter away from there ... he just needs a naive punter with a few quid and a dream about living on the water to do it for him