Koolie
Well-Known Member
Lock Keepers? Heybridge Basin Troll\'s
Mmmmmm
Is the position of Lock Keeper a service industry position?
Does the position mean, and I am only guessing here, that when the tide is at an accessable height, no matter what the time is the 'Lock Keepers' job is to operate the gates and route the tidal flow?
The reason I ask is this:
The River Blackwater, Heybridge Basin, The lock keeper, or should I say his...................................erm.....erm...Woman who wears his ring!!!!!
I was there in the canal this weekend, and wow! lovely place, but....Hello..... Who wears the trouser's?
The Lock Keeper, I think his name was Charles, or Clive or something, I was party to a conversation with regards to the evening locking in, and I understand that the little lady refused to let an evening lock happen!!!!!!!!!!
Can you believe that? They apparently require 48 hours notice to lock! What does Essex Water Ways think of that?
If the lock keepers wages were governed by piece work, and he was paid per locking or how many vessels he had coming in and out, they would be poor people.
I have never met a ruder, less friendly lock keeper in all my life. He shouted at visitors, had no people skills to endure return visits, and that lady if it was a man she would have gone for a swim.
I can understand why CBN company lost money, I and my friends on their yacht will not be visiting them by boat again.
The venue was fab, is fab! I went there because of an earlier post by PVR, and the info a Tillergirl had given. He spoke the truth, but omitted the Troll in residence!!!
Come on EWW, wake up, you have a little gem of a place there and it is being let down by rude unfriendly staff, or spouses of staff.
Enough said!!!
Koolie
PS. I also, as a visiting Yachtie took a walk and got kicked off a pontoon by a grey haired old lady who was a member of some HCBS or something. ITs private for members only!!!!
Bad visit to a lovely place let down by grumpy people. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Mmmmmm
Is the position of Lock Keeper a service industry position?
Does the position mean, and I am only guessing here, that when the tide is at an accessable height, no matter what the time is the 'Lock Keepers' job is to operate the gates and route the tidal flow?
The reason I ask is this:
The River Blackwater, Heybridge Basin, The lock keeper, or should I say his...................................erm.....erm...Woman who wears his ring!!!!!
I was there in the canal this weekend, and wow! lovely place, but....Hello..... Who wears the trouser's?
The Lock Keeper, I think his name was Charles, or Clive or something, I was party to a conversation with regards to the evening locking in, and I understand that the little lady refused to let an evening lock happen!!!!!!!!!!
Can you believe that? They apparently require 48 hours notice to lock! What does Essex Water Ways think of that?
If the lock keepers wages were governed by piece work, and he was paid per locking or how many vessels he had coming in and out, they would be poor people.
I have never met a ruder, less friendly lock keeper in all my life. He shouted at visitors, had no people skills to endure return visits, and that lady if it was a man she would have gone for a swim.
I can understand why CBN company lost money, I and my friends on their yacht will not be visiting them by boat again.
The venue was fab, is fab! I went there because of an earlier post by PVR, and the info a Tillergirl had given. He spoke the truth, but omitted the Troll in residence!!!
Come on EWW, wake up, you have a little gem of a place there and it is being let down by rude unfriendly staff, or spouses of staff.
Enough said!!!
Koolie
PS. I also, as a visiting Yachtie took a walk and got kicked off a pontoon by a grey haired old lady who was a member of some HCBS or something. ITs private for members only!!!!
Bad visit to a lovely place let down by grumpy people. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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