For several reasons WMD found itself on a road trip to Foxton Locks in Leicestershire. It is a wonderful place to visit and as Mrs Woody was off work it was a good excuse to visit again. From a modelling view I am going to be modelling a canal wharf on my 009 gauge layout extension so some research was required including whether the ice cream shop at the top of the flight of locks still sold the same mouth watering ice cream. It did! That means I will need to include some form of ice cream selling establishment on my model although Mrs W is of the view that all of the visit was just an excuse to have an ice cream!
The locks themselves are a fantastic piece of Victorian engineering that still operates as it did today. The Canal and Rivers Trust have a short video which is far better than anything I can do!
There is a Museum, mainly open at the weekend and there are some interesting old signs and other canal related items dotted about.
A horse drawn ice breaker. Drawn by a team of 8 horses this was towed through the canal to break ice during the winter.
Well worth a visit if you are in the area of Market Harborough and Mrs W and myself even discussed the possibility of a canal holiday - I suspect if we do I will be the one opening the lock gates though!
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