00:00My name's Ruth Garrett, I'm the Regional Heritage Advisor for Canal and River Trust and I'm
00:10in the 250-year-old Leeds River Lock at Granary Wharf in the city centre. It's a Grade 2 star
00:17listed structure and the Canal and River Trust are in here on our winter stoppage season
00:22to do essential repairs and maintenance work so we can get it operational. We've de-watered
00:28the lock, we're just about to undertake the conservation repair works that are needed
00:34to make sure we've got watertight seals. It's a really urgent project, something that as
00:39a charity we do all the time in order to make sure our waterways stay alive and open for
00:46operational purposes. So the repair work that we're doing at the Leeds River Lock here today
00:56is we have to put the stop plank grooves in so we can make sure we can de-water for
01:02essential maintenance in the future. We're addressing the ground paddle works as well
01:06so we've got some timber conservation repairs going ahead and also we're going to address
01:10the lock floor as well. So we're looking at all the original fabric and replacing like
01:16for like.
