Normally closed to the public, the Bradley workshop in the West Midlands is one of only two specialist sites in the country where skilled craftspeople hand build the giant lock gates that keep the ...

Weighing roughly 453,600 kilograms each, or about one million pounds, two massive Welland Canal chamber gates at Thorold’s Lock 7 are being replaced this week. The spare gates, each about a hundred ...

A section of the UK's longest canal that has been closed since January for repair work will reopen on Friday. Locks 12 and 13 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, are having new handmade gates fitted.

AN OPEN day is being held this weekend at the working blacksmiths forge next to Dobson Lock in Apperley Bridge on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The Canal & River Trust is giving people the chance to ...