It consisted of a replica cogwheel with wire rope and was intended to symbolise the technology used in operating the sluices. |
The fields are bounded by drainage ditches and sluices are now being added so that the water levels can be controlled to provide the optimum conditions. |
Since acquiring the redundant farmland the trust has carried out a programme of restoration which has included restoring sluices, re-opening waterways and a grazing policy. |
Locally the sluices and waterways from the flood plain to the river are in several cases clogged up. |
Leave to marinate for a good 4-6 hours, then serve them, scattered with the capers, with hunks of bread or on thin sluices of garlicky bruschetta. |
However, be that as it might, not one of them but knew how to open the sluices. |