Salterhebble Bottom Lock - Halifax

Abbreviated Caption
Calder and Hebble Navigation. Salterhebble lower lock is one of three along the short stretch of the Long Lee cutting engineered in 1815/6 by long term superintendent and resident engineer, Thomas Bradley of Halifax. This lock is unique on the Navigation in possessing an electrically operated steel, guillotine bottom gate, necessitated during the 1930s by the widening of the Stainland Road. It was

Date 30 July 2016