Redski
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Radio 4, You and Yours progamme probably (possibly) Friday 30th May.
The subject? The Lock and Weir keepers and their houses. Interviewees could include various Old Windsor residents, some lock and weir keepers wives , Head of Navigation and Recreation (Bristol) and a retired Thames Navigation and Recreation manager and Harbourmaster. Who would listen to that??
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Shades
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Sounds fascinating!
I will definitely be listening to see what they all have to say.
After all, the reduction in resident lockstaff could have a serious impact on "after-hours" safety and flooding incidents.
As the lcokkepers have been telling us, those incidents don't only happen during their working day. How long will it take someone to respond, if they live twenty miles away or more from an incident?
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Brayman
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Head of Navigation and Recreation ( Bristol )
Says it all really, is Bristol somewhere near the source do you think?
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Shades
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Wasn't it someone from Bristol who wrote that press release after the flooding last July that said...
" Red Boards are in force all the way from Oxford to Boveney, upsteam of... Slough! "
So they do know what they are talking about... NOT!
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DogsBody
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Head of Navigation and Recreation ( Bristol )
Says it all really, is Bristol somewhere near the source do you think?
Great minds think alike Ian, first thing I thought when reading that was WTF has the Thames got to do with Bristol 
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byron
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Head of Navigation and Recreation ( Bristol )
Says it all really, is Bristol somewhere near the source do you think?
Great minds think alike Ian, first thing I thought when reading that was WTF has the Thames got to do with Bristol
They're the clever souls who ordered those expensive tiny metal signs that you have to get within a couple of feet to read. The also ordered the original 8K speed signs. Not realising that boats work in Knots every last one of them had to be altered to read Kilometers so Boaters would understand that the EA speed limit calculations were not in harmony with the rest of the world.
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oldgit
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"How long will it take someone to respond, if they live twenty miles away or more from an incident? "
Think you can find the police,ambulance and firefighting services will not drive any slower because the emergency is located on the river.
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No_Regrets
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And of course the Police etc are well versed in Lock and Weirs... 
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The scourge of Windsor, and notorious founder member of the 'Upper Thames Birchwood Massive' now outlawed by the EA and River pressure groups, currently planning a nice comfy retirement in the aft cabin of a Broom.
Now can anybody recommend any non-marking slippers?
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Shades
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So, it's late at night and you are stuck in a lock, unable to get the gates open. When you ring 999 (as you suggest you would), which emergency service would you ask for? Police? Ambulance? Fire Service?
How soon do you think they would arrive (if they respond)  ?
They normally struggle to find most locks, emergency or not!
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boatone
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So, it's late at night and you are stuck in a lock, unable to get the gates open.
This might be inconvenient and even bloody annoying but is it necessarily an emergency?
As I understand it, the EA is actually a part of the emergency services infrastructure so would be called upon by the 999 service if required.
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