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Bridgewater Canal
My younger brother Russell and I grew up on Coniston Road in Stretford and one of my earliest memories was of going down to the canal armed with pickle jars that had breathing holes stabbed into the lid (a fork from mums kitchen was ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1971 by
St Catherines School
I remember the small school well. I went there 1953 -1957 close to the Manchester Ship Canal. Lunch was brought around in big steel cans and we had much fun and laughter. Christmas plays were fun too. I also lived ...Read more
A memory of Barton Upon Irwell by
Barton Swing Bridges Road And Canal
This picture shows both the Barton road bridge and the swing bridge carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal in the 'open' position. I used to visit this site as a child when there ...Read more
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Where Did It All Go ?
Catching gudgeon at Ackers Pit and taking them home in jam jar (they died!) Swimming in Bridgewater Canal "Dukes`s" would you believe at Grappenhall! Passing exam for Boteler Grammar and getting a new beach ball as a reward (all other kids had a new bike) Sorry dad ...I know we had no money.
A memory of Warrington in 1950 by
Astmoor Tannery Area
My father used to work at Astmoot Tannery until it closed in 1957, he wound up the books and company. There used to be a small shop in a person's front room, in the row of cottages at the bottom of Summer Lane and the owner ...Read more
A memory of Astmoor in 1957 by
The Barton Road Swing Bridge
This photograph shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, taken from the Bridgewater Canal Aqueduct, which stands alongside this bridge and carried the Bridgewater Canal over the MSC. ...Read more
A memory of Barton Upon Irwell in 1950 by
60s A Time Of Change
I lived in Southall ( west ave ) until the company my father worked for ( Cramic Eng ) moved to Oxfordshire. I and my two brothers went to Tudor road primary where in my year we were joined by Surinda Pal one of the first Sikh ...Read more
A memory of Southall by
The Canel/River/Pictures
We lived on Chatsworth Road and used to walk to the Bridgewater, or on to the Mersey by the Bridge pub for a swim and to fish! Not that we ever caught anything in the Mersey. We used to also go to the Ship canel by the ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1958 by
Pickering Bridge
If you took the right turn at Bell Cottage and then right again on the main road then a left up a cinder track you came to the Bridgewater canal that was in the higher part of the village. It was the acknowledged meeting place for ...Read more
A memory of Thelwall in 1959 by
My Five Memorable Years At Chaigeley
There was Mr Jim Goynes, Mr Nicholson and his wife, Mr Hamer, Mr Oxley (the boys knew him as "Flump" although I never knew why). There was Mollie Manion (known as Matron), Mrs Nicholson was her assistant and ...Read more
A memory of Thelwall in 1953
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The Trent and Mersey Canal was completed in 1777.
The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.
The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.
This drainage took place when the canals were being cut so that the village sits between two canals (the Bridgewater and the Manchester Ship Canal).
The bridge was built over the Bridgewater Canal in 1778, but it has been widened and strengthened many times since.
Top Locks was the end of the Bridgewater Canal system - it had come all the way from Manchester and Worsley.
The Bridgewater Canal was the first proper canal to be built and it linked Manchester with Worsley.
The Trent and Mersey Canal never actually linked to the Mersey, but it did make a connection with the Bridgewater Canal in Cheshire which did.
Roads, railways and also canals run through Runcorn.
One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams.
When the Duke of Bridgewater planned his canal into Manchester in 1760, the original plan was to stay on the Salford side of the Irwell.
One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams, seen to the right of this photograph.
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.
Hollingworth Lake was originally constructed as a feeder for the Rochdale Canal.
Here we have another view of the Bridgewater Canal, this time in Lymm.
Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.
Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.
Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal
Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.
This scene on the Bridgewater Canal in Greater Manchester is essentially unchanged to this day.
The Bridgewater Canal. A
This is an historic view, as these locks, linking the Manchester Ship and the Bridgewater canals, were infilled in 1966.
There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.
First railways and then the motor age signalled the end of the canal network for commercial use.
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