Runcorn, Top Locks c.1955
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R67001
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Top Locks was the end of the Bridgewater Canal system - it had come all the way from Manchester and Worsley. Top Locks was named thus because if its location at the top of a large set of locks which opened in about 1780; they brought boats from the River Mersey and Liverpool up to the Bridgewater Canal. In 1800, canal and river was the easiest way of travelling from Manchester to Liverpool in the winter. By the time of our photograph, the locks had been closed and filled in, so the canal finished here at Waterloo Bridge. The Waterloo Hotel is on the left on High Street. In 1961, the area's first Chinese restaurant opened in the small white buildings on the left. It cost half-a-crown for chicken chow mein with curry sauce.
An extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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