The upper cill looking towards Loxwood with training or wing walls completed. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The upper cill looking towards Southland lock and the summit. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

Looking down the lock towards Loxwood. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

The lower gate in detail. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The lower gates as viewed from a boat travelling north. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The mitre for the lower gates. Note the re-use of the old wood in the centre. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

One of the lower gates being lifted into position. (Mar 16, 2010).
(Photo: Bill Thomson)

'Riprap' blocks being laid at the tail of the lock to reduce scouring near the back pump entry. (Mar 7, 2010.).
(Photo: Rob Taylor)

Silt being removed from the lock invert in preparation for gate fitting.Mar 7, 2010.).
(Photo: Rob Taylor)

Back pump sump being prepared. (Mar 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Electrical cabinet on the offside of the lock fitted with utility sockets and circuit breakers awaiting installation of the back pump control gear. (Mar 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Nearside training wall now complete with coping stones. (Mar 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The offside trainingg wall complete with coping stones, covered to keep off frost. (Mar 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The dredged channel above Loxwood New Lock. (Mar 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The offside training wall up to final blockwork level an ready for copings. (Feb 14, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The nearside training wall is now built up to final level and finished apart from the concrete fill. (Feb 14, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

Dredging in progress. The pound between Loxwood lock and Devil's Hole lock. (Feb 7, 2010.).
(Photo: Julian Morgan)

The nearside upper cill and training wall. The paddle gear and quoin has been fitted. (Feb 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The offside training wall under construction. The paddle gear is fixed in place and the quoins have been fitted. The aperture at the bottom of the wall is the outlet from the back pump. (Feb 4, 2010.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Installing the ground paddle and winding gear on the off side of the lock. Note the cast iron quoin ready for installation in the gate recess. (Jan 17, 2010.).
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

Removing the shuttering from the cast copings. (Jan 17, 2010.).
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

The blinding on the offside laid and the flood water diverted past. (Nov 22, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

The completed walls for the top cill. The next stage is to cast the copings. Flood water is being released from the upper pound to enable the blinding for the training wall to be layed. (Nov 22, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

Rob Taylor being presented with the PEDAL 2009 Plaque by Eric Walker in recognition of his fund raising efforts. The total raised by the PEDAL was in the region of £1570. (Nov 22, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

The final length of trunking for the back pump power cable being laid. (Nov 22, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

Off side upper gate recess. (Nov 12, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The nearside upper gate recess up to coping level and backfilled with concrete. (Nov 12, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The Devil's Hole winding hole near completion and connected to the main chanel. (Nov 12, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The upper cill viewed from the pound above.(Nov 5, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)
See also clearance work at Southland Lock.

A close up view of the offside ground paddle and frame. Unlike classic paddle gear, which is made of wood, these are made of a plastic based material which will last longer. (Nov 5, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

View looking south east. The block walls have reached coping stone level for most of the length and the gap filled with concrete. On the far side (towpath side) most of the blocks have reached coping level. (Nov 5, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The cast iron ware for the lock has been delivered, quoins, ground paddle winding gear and bollards. (Oct 18, 2009.).
(Photo: Tim Jolly)

Rapid progress on the south wall of the cill. It is important to get this to finished height before the bad weather starts and causes the earth sides to collapse. The north wall has reached a similar height. (Oct 4, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

The excavations for the winding hole below Devil's Hole Lock. To build the winding hole, which will be on part of the original river line before it was diverted and left the Ox-bow, we have had to remove the years of silt down to the hard clay and then build back up again using good compacted material to provide a base for the winding hole bank where it crosses the line of the old river. The red machine is a remotely controlled earth compactor. (Oct 4, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

Installing the cable duct for the DHL back-pump. A distance of approx. 600m towards Southland Lock to a cabinet installed close to a pole mounted transformer. (Sep. 13, 2009.).
(Photo: Peter Savage)

The result of clearance work by the MWWP of the canal just south of the DHL winding hole. The winding hole excavation can be see to the right of the off-side canal bank. Devil's Hole Lock is just around the corner to the left.
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

View looking south of clearance by the MWWP of the section south of the winding hole. (Oct 1, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

Closeup of the cutout made for the sluice for the upper ground paddle. (Oct 1, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

A closeup view of the back pump outlet. (Oct 1, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Emsley)

The near side with outer block work not far from the top. The outline of the gate recess can be seen in the cast concrete blocks in front of the nearer wheelbarrow. The space between the inner and outer walls will be filled with concrete. (Oct 1, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Blockwork proceeds on the offside upper cill. The opening in the wall is for outlet from the back pump, which unlike other restored locks on the canal, will be within the lock structure. (Oct 1, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

View from the off side showing the hole for the water. The existing paddle hole will be blanked off with concrete. (Sept 20, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

The top cill, with block laying started. The channel for the water from the side paddles will go through the square hole being made in the existing structure. Normally water drops straight down below the paddle, but as this is a modification to an existing structure, the water will flow horizontally before falling to the bottom of the lock.(Sept 20, 2009.).
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Work starts on the winding hole below Devil's Hole Lock (Sept 20, 2009.) The off side canal bank is in the foreground, with the excavator clearing the ground in preparation for forming the winding hole.
(Photo: Richard Crook)

Shuttering and re-inforcing in place for concreting the new top cill. The pre-mix concrete arrived later in day this photo was taken. (Sept 3, 2009.).
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

The head of the lock prepared for concreting the top cill. The excavator bucket was used to transfer the concrete to cill.
(Photo: Janet Phillips)

Verrall's 20-tonne digger removes the original top cill at DHL in preparation for lenthening the lock to take boats of 22-metre length.
(Photo: Jim Phillips)

Aug. 9, 2009 - Devils Hole lock chamber a few days before work started to demolish the top cill and extend the head of the lock to take longer boats.
(Photo: Eric Walker)