Bart Bear's Blog

Here's Mum at one of the great pieces of engineering the Oldies visited on their big trip. This is part of the Thames Barrier at Woolwich in London. The barrier is there to prevent London being flooded by a combination of high tides and storm surges. To get to the barrier the oldies had to take a long boat trip down the river. I would have enjoyed that, but they left me behind with Unka Paddy. The silver shells house the big motors that raise and lower the floodgates. The gates were all down when the oldies were there. I think it would have been fun if the gates had come up while they were on the outside and locked them out for a while.

Labels: boats, engineering, England