Whitchurch Lock - Out of operation

[Outinthedinghy]

What happened at Shepperton, please?
Without disclosing stuff you should not, of course.

Tree felling accident

Man dies after being hit by a falling tree


The link to "getsurrey" news site looks like it was a random accident but the bloke was in the process of taking the tree down when it came down and killed him.
Updated story from same website

Man killed at Shepperton Lock was Environment Agency employee

HSE.

 

[Ma Costa]

Whitchurch lock is now fixed, according to EA Facebook page.

 

[Mushroom2]

The lock was opened at 1100. 48 hours after the collar broke for a job that I was told by many EA staff should have taken 2 hrs at the most.
Good to see that there were 2 senior managers at the lock helping boaters through! No doubt expecting to take the plaudits for fixing such a complex problem. One of them, evidently "the harbourmaster" (Mike someone?) was running up and down the lock grabbing lines and "organising" everybody - comical to watch.
And I pay £850 a year to that bloody useless outfit.

 

[prof pat pending]

Can’t say I noticed, I saw two relief lockies and a guy I hadn’t seen before who hadn’t had time to change out of his motorcycle gear. They seemed to be doing a good job of clearing boats when we came through about midday