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Devizes, Wiltshire KAC54.65 |
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KandAC mile 54
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The entrance to Devizes Yard from the canal side, over the tail bridge
of lock 44; work boats in the side pound.
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This is the main BWB maintenance yard for the whole Kennet and Avon
Canal.
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Crane, parked in the yard.
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Outside the area of yard offices there is a stockpile of canal
necessaries, a fenced compound of bits and pieces.
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Miscellaneous goods; pallets of bricks, piles of steel piling, a
portable pump, a dump truck, ...
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Coir roll; this is used for reinforcing the canal bank, there is a lot
of coir wrapped in a plastic coated wire mesh, the blue bits are
plastic inserts, perforated like hair curlers, in which reeds can be
planted.
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A stack of ground paddles and their seatings.
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A barrow load of sluice gear.
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Steel piling and wooden stop planks
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Outside the compound, too big to carry away, a pile of lock gates.
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Kennet and Avon Scrapbook 2000
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