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HARLOW MILL
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Lock |
State |
Date |
Length |
Length - Working Distance |
Width |
Fall |
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Harlow Mill Lock |
Built in brick |
1766/9 |
90' 0'' |
87' 0'' |
13' 6'' |
8' 9'' |
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Harlow Mill Lock |
Rebuilt in brick/concrete |
1912 |
90' 0'' |
87' 0'' |
13' 6'' |
8' 9'' |
1884 Report: "Brick built, one side refaced recently.,
other side requires doing.. Upper gates bad, but new ones ready for
fixing; Hanging posts bad, require renewing and sill lowering 1 foot:
Lower gates deepened in 1859 and new gates in - now in fair condition.
This lock will require an outlay of about £500 within a couple of years
- fall about 8' 6''. Lockhouse, plaster built and slated (date 1803) ,
wood buildings in fair repair."
1901 Report: "Brick built. South side good, North side
very bad and bulged out. Upper gates, 1884, in good order. Lower gates
1859. Gates in very bad condition. This lock will require an
outlay of about £400. Lowers sill should be lowered 6 inches. Fall
about 8' 6'', the greatest on the river. Lockhouse, plaster built, and
slated (date 1803). Wood buildings in fair repair."
The Mill
was next to the lock, where a sluice gate now stands. The mill was
demolished in the first half of the 20th century.
Harlow Mill Lock was one of
only two brick-sided lock chambers built when the Navigation was
canalised between 1766 and 1769. The chamber was too deep and the mill
too close to build safely a turf-sided lock.
The timber-framed lock
house was there by 1833 but replaced by British Waterways in the 1960’s.
The date and composition of
this postcard suggest that this is possibly Henry Clayden and Frederick
Ward standing outside the house on or soon after 31.3.1901. See the
census record below.
13.7.1912 "The lower
gates of this lock collapsed...the offside gate is in the bottom of the
lock and the other one is completely shattered and is now
pointing the reverse way. I am glad to say that no-one was hurt,
the lock was being filled at the time...I am preparing plans for new
gates with a deeper sill to give us increased depth of water" C Tween (LMA/ACC 2423/012)
In 2008 this sculpture "The Flowing
River" by Antony Lycycia was erected on the eastern side of the lock
chamber. The words paraphrase the legend on the missing plaque from
Latton Lock house.
Harlow Mill Lock House
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Census/Date |
Name||| |
Title |
Wife |
Location given by
enumerator/Comments |
Source Reference |
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c.1961 |
Grimwade |
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Appointed |
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c.1961 |
A M Tait |
Lock keeper |
Retired |
Eddie Tait |
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c.1950 |
A M Tait |
Lock keeper |
Appointed ex Carpenters Road Lock at
£4.15.0; . £4.18.6 from 2.8.1950; Last recorded r.o.p
£7.14.11 n.d. |
LCB Records |
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1.4.1939 |
F G Mitchell |
Lock keeper |
To £1.7.0 |
NA Rail 845/123 |
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1.4.1938 |
F G Mitchell |
Lock keeper |
£1.5.0 to £1.6.0 |
NA Rail 845/122 |
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8.10.1937 |
Frederick George Mitchell |
Lock keeper |
Appointed at 25/- per week with
uniform, house and garden |
NA Rail 845/121 |
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19.7.1935 |
C B Lawrence (72) |
Lock keeper |
Retired |
NA/Rail 845/119 |
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31.10.1930 |
C B Lawrence (67) |
Lock keeper |
2 years service. 21/- per week
and house. One daughter |
NA Rail 845/114 |
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5.10.1928 |
E White |
Lock keeper |
Increase to £1.1s (minimum wage) |
NA Rail 845/112 |
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27.7.1928 |
Edgar White (47) |
Lock keeper |
Army pension of £1 per week, applied.
"...known to Sir Edmund Barnard who no
doubt will give you his views" |
NA Rail 845/112
LMA ACC 2423/025 |
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13.7.1928 |
F Trussell (64) |
Lock keeper |
Off duty last 16 weeks, relieved
by R Brown, (35/- per week). Trussell’s wages were 19/- per
week. He be given 1 weeks notice |
NA Rail 845/112 |
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1.8.1924 |
F Trussell (60) |
Lock keeper |
Ex P C for 25 years. Appointed |
NA Rail 845/108 |
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1.8.1924 |
J Salmon |
Lock keeper |
Died 15.7.1924. Pension
continued to widow (who died 28.12.1925) |
NA Rail 845/108
LMA ACC
2423/023 |
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25.5.1923 |
Ernest Morris (47) |
Lock keeper |
Appointed at 17/- per week |
NA/Rail 845/107
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25.5.1923 |
J Salmon |
Lock keeper |
Retired with pension of 8/- per
week |
NA Rail 845/107 |
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3.5.1923 |
Medical Certificate from Dr F N Day M.B.
"I certify that Joseph Salmon is suffering from Atheroma of
Vessels and Vertigo" ...he is unable to carry out his duties as
Lock keeper |
LMA ACC
2423/020 |
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13.4.1923 |
J Salmon (72) |
Lock keeper |
Unwell since 21.3.1923, relieved
at cost of £1.11.3d per week.... a medical certificate must be
obtained |
NA Rail 845/107 |
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14.11.1919 |
J Salmon |
Lock keeper |
17/- per week + house, garden,
and uniform |
NA/Rail 845/46 |
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5.2.1918 |
J Salmon |
Lock keeper |
15/- per week |
NA /Rail 845/66 |
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4.3.1915 |
J Salmon |
Lock keeper |
+2/- per week |
NA Rail 845/42 |
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13.10.1911 |
Joseph Salmons |
Lock keeper |
Into the service of the Board at
13/- per week (Brother of B Salmon at Spellbrook Lock) |
NA/Rail 845/38 |
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2.4.1911 |
Joseph Salmon (60) |
Lock keeper |
Elizabeth |
The Lock House (Harlow) |
RG14PN9794 RG78PN517 RD189 SD3 ED1 SN209 |
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31.3.1901 |
Henry G Clayden (30) |
Carpenter (foreman) |
Ellen |
The Lock house (Harlow Mill) |
Ex/Harlow/1/35 |
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31.3.1901 |
Frederick Ward (18) |
Lock boy on the R Stort |
~ |
The Lock house (Harlow Mill) |
Ex/Harlow/1/35 |
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6.11.1891 |
William Turner |
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Transferred as weirkeeper at
Newmans Weir |
NA Rail 845/26 |
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5.4.1891 |
William Dorrington (29) |
Carpenter |
Fanny |
London Road Lock house |
Ex/Harlow/1/18 |
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4.4.1881 |
Charles Dorrington (45) |
Lock keeper |
Susanna |
The Lock house (Harlow Mill) |
Ex/Harlow/1/46 |
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2.4.1871 |
William Carter (42) |
Lock keeper |
Ellen |
Lock House |
Ex/Harlow/1/7 |
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8.4.1861 |
William Carter (63) |
Lock keeper |
Francis (sic) |
Lock House |
Ex/Harlow/1/29 |
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30.3.1851 |
William Carter (54) |
Lock keeper |
Frances |
Lock House (William 22) |
Ex/Harlow/6a/38 |
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7.6.1841 |
William Carter (40) |
Lab |
Frances |
Lock House |
Ex/Harlow/1/17 |
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