Ascending Portishead Lock

The big radial top gates are cracked open slightly to fill the lock. There is a floating pontoon on each side of the lock, which rises with the boat. The gentleman in the picture (our pilot) is standing on that pontoon.

Photograph taken by Keeping Up on 23 July 2004 and was added to the database on Tuesday the 13th of March, 2012

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