sentences:  The resident engineer for the construction of the tidal lock and upper basin was John Armstrong, originally from Ingram, Northumberland.Having trained as a millwright in Newcastle, he worked on a number of bridge projects under several of the major civil engineers of the time, including Thomas Telford, William Jessop and John Rennie, before taking on the Grosvenor Canal project.It was one of the few times he worked independently as a civil engineer.