Clydach Lock looking North Then and Now.

5 December 2013 | Canal, Restoration, SCS

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Gareth Mills took the picture above in 1960.

The one below was taken in 2011.

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No great progress in restoration but certainly tidier, greener and a pleasanter place to walk by.

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