lock-keeper

There's just enough room on this one for the lock-keeper's house, his beautifully kept garden and a small copse, one part of which is the tiny, five-pitch campsite.

The 10 best secluded campsites 2011

Several of the locks on the upper reaches of the Thames are home to small, simple campsites overseen by the lock-keeper, often accessible only by boat or on foot.

The 10 best waterside campsites 2011

Wife of the Britannia lock-keeper, I learned she was.

SUICIDE 2010

Mr Mitchell, himself a keen photographer, was challenged twice, once by a lock-keeper while photographing a barge on the Leeds to Liverpool canal and once on the beach at Cleethorpes.

Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

Mr Mitchell, himself a keen photographer, was challenged twice, once by a lock-keeper while photographing a barge on the Leeds to Liverpool canal and once on the beach at Cleethorpes.

Photographer = terrorist or paedophile Not a sheep 2008

They lived in the flat, watery fens of East Anglia, where Tom's father worked as a lock-keeper.

The Story of History, Small and Large 2009

Well, he would as soon be a lock-keeper as anything else in a humble walk of life — watching water go up and down, and living in that pretty cottage, with nothing to worry about, except — except his daughter!

Swan Song 2004

“Boats go through the lock?” the lock-keeper shouted.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

The lock-keeper put his hand to his ear and shouted back, “What?”

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

Abingdon Lock was closed, and it took us a quarter of an hour to wake up the lock-keeper, who took it out on us by letting the water out of the lock at a trickle.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997