For a very short time I worked for the British waterways, ( 3 months), but in that time I did a lot of building maintenance ( repairs to the lock keepers houses,), I made a friend of a carpenter who's job was making and repairing the locks, he had been doing it for years, and he knew his job, but sadly one day while working on a gate, it slipped off its hinges and fell on him, I never saw him again, but he used to live around the corner of the tax office in Broad St, there was one lockkeeper who was very nice his misses would bring me cups of tea when I was doing repairs to their place, ( must have been around 1968/69, ), I liked the job, but the salary was nothing, hence the 3 months only..then I moved on..J2