Keywords: Ribble Link 04c232.jpg The three-chambered staircase of locks on the Ribble Link at SD 509 311 in Ingol north west of Preston Lancashire England This staircase brings the canal down from the Lancaster Canal to the Savick Brook The wide pond in the foreground is necessary because boats on emerging from the bottom chamber have to execute a very tight turn to continue their journey under the bridge in the left of the picture Gazing down into the top chamber is a larger than lifesize wooden statue of a man labelled Gauging the Ripple 4 Water by Thompson Dagnall Commissioned by The Waterways Trust and British Waterways This is one of a number of statues beside this new cut Photo taken 2004 December 28 13 18 RHaworth Ribble Link Images by Roger W Haworth |