Editing Richmond Lock and Footbridge (section)

==Historic operation==
The sluice gates were manually operated by lock keepers, who lived in housing mostly contained under the pedestrian steps and landing on both banks.<ref name=listing/>

From the date of the bridge's opening until some time during [[World War II]], pedestrians were charged a toll of [[old penny|one (old) penny]], i.e. {{frac|1|240}} of a [[British pound|pound]]. However, sightseers who went onto the bridge and left from the same side had to pay tuppence (two old pence, {{frac|1|120}} of a [[British pound|pound]]).<ref name="Davenport">{{Cite book |last=Davenport |first=Neil |title=Thames Bridges from Dartford to the Source |publisher=Nostalgia Collection |year=2007 |isbn=9781857942293}}</ref> The toll booths and the remains of the turnstile housings remain.  Since two unconnected footbridges exist, one either side of the sluice-gate-holding brickwork and mechanisms, four toll booths and turnstiles had to be provided to collect the tolls.<ref name=listing/>