Mizter T wrote:
On May 18, 6:30 pm, CJB wrote:

Historian Don Cruikshank was in the water as a crane lifted some
stones out of the - appropriately named - Prescott Channel to deepen
the water for Olympic barges.

Why "appropriately named"?

'CJB' has just had one of those 2 + 2 = 5 moments, I think. The channel was
named after Sir William Prescott of the Lee Conservancy, when built in the
30s...

Thankfully the expensive new lock has been named 'Three Mills Lock' to avoid
even more mistaken references to another Prescott...

Paul S