John Ackroyd

Civil Engineer. Project Manager.

[John Ackroyd @JohnPAckroyd]

@eCommencal Hi Miles. Just moving on to try something new. Nowhere near retirement yet! Thanks for your message.

[John Ackroyd @JohnPAckroyd]

After 19 years of service, I have now left employment with the Canal & River Trust. ☹️ I wish the Trust every success in the future.

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@CRTAndy Thanks Andy.

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@CRTAndyC Thanks for the kind words Andy.

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@CRTPeterW Thanks Peter.

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@CRTSteveH Thanks Steve.

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Marple Lock 11. The story in images. Closed to reopening today ! 😀

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Marple Lock 11: Fantastic achievement: lock rebuild now complete and work boat passing through. Marple flight will be back open this afternoon!😀 Thanks to @kiergroup who did the construction work .@CRTNorthWest

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Marple Lock 11: latest photos of the lock rebuild. Getting close to finishing now. Lock walls fully reconstructed & looking good.

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Marple Lock 11: last of the coping stones being positioned today on site to complete the main lock rebuild. Photos above and below the scaffold platform . @CanalRiverTrust

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Marple Lock 11: Latest photos taken today of the lock wall reconstruction. Getting close to full height now. Depth of the lock hidden by the scaffolding.

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Marple Lock 11: latest photos taken today. Rebuild of the lock walls is about half way up. We have replaced a few stones, light coloured, with new ones as the original stones are fractured. New sandstone is from a local quarry in Kerridge. @CRTNorthWest

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@SimonCHarding @CRTNorthWest Refurbishing the timber lock gates!

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Marple Lock 11: starting to rebuild the lock chamber walls. Lower part is natural orange brick, and now on to rebuilding the stonework. We have some new sandstone blocks to replace perished stones. @CRTNorthWest

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Marple Lock 11: photos taken today of the excavation and carefully dismantling the lock walls. This is major civil engineering work! We need to save the sandstone blocks and reuse them in reconstruction laying them in the same order.

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Middlewich Canal Breach: photos taken today during my inspection of the reconstructed Canal which is now fully refilled with water. Some final works to do tomorrow prior to reopening the navigation on Friday 🍾🎉😀. @CRTNorthWest . Thanks to our contractors @kiergroup

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Middlewich Canal Breach: photos taken today of completed channel construction. Some water in the canal , and starting to carefully refill over the next few days @CRTNorthWest

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Excellent work 👍! Well done all those involved.

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After dewatering a stretch of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal near Standedge Tunnel, our Reactive Construction Team discovered a collapsed wash wall. Maintenance work was recently carried out to repair this. See our before & after pictures below! #MondayMotivation

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Middlewich Canal Breach: latest photos of the Canal bed showing concrete truck and mobile pump used for placing protection over the PVC liner. @CRTNorthWest

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Middlewich Canal Breach: started installing the PVC liner across the Canal bed. Latest photos taken while visiting site today. Works managed by @kiergroup progressing very well. @CRTNorthWest