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Memories
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Joe Allmans Junk Shop
This shop had solid soil floors. It was full of old junk which now I suppose would be classed as antiques. Joe Allman was the owner and was made to leave as the Council stated that the building was unfit for human occupation; ...Read more
A memory of Northwich by
Jackson Boat Platt Fields
I too remember Jackson's Boat. Living off Derbyshire Lane in Stretford, we would make the mammoth walk down the canal to Jackson's Boat on a Sunday and have a drink sat outside, then walk all the way back. At Platt ...Read more
A memory of Stretford in 1960 by
The New Lock
This looks like the bridge over the canal at the Addlestone / New Haw border but I can't be sure. If it is I remember my parents taking us there (early 70's) to watch them put in new lock gates. The gates have the year engraved into ...Read more
A memory of Addlestone in 1973 by
Bracebridge
I was born at number 2 Bracebridge in 1941. From childhood memories I think it was a canal side cottage. My mother was evacuated there from Coventry to avoid the bombing for a short stay. I think I must have arrived early as I don't ...Read more
A memory of Worksop by
Searching The Tombs!
Oh I know it always seemed so huge and scary, with its giant red doors, but my brother and I had such fun in the churchyard climbing the trees and exploring the broken tombs and crypts. Pretty scary as I always expected a ...Read more
A memory of Camberwell in 1966 by
Happy Days
I, Allen Rix, was born and grew up in Jersey Marine from 1933 to 1951 when I left to join the RAF. Living through World War 2 was hard for a lot of people but for us it was a gat time, even though we had to endure the bombing of ...Read more
A memory of Jersey Marine by
My First Memories Were Of Hemel Hempstead
I don’t know exactly how old I was when we moved to Hemel from Willesden London N.W.10.. My first memories were from about the age of 4.. We lived in a flat in Underacres Close near Mayland’s Wood.. I ...Read more
A memory of Hemel Hempstead by
Covered Bus Stop On Sale Canal Bridge.
Born, bred, lived and worked in Sale. 50 years b4 I moved to Scotland. I seemed to be the only one, amongst my peers, to recall a scaffold-pole framed, covered bus stop situated on the wide pavement between the old ...Read more
A memory of Sale by
Wartime Memories Of Romiley
My memory of Romiley was around the Summer of 1940. My family stayed in a stone cottage, there were about 10 of them. They were on the road up to Greave which was about half a mile away. Going in the opposite direction down ...Read more
A memory of Romiley
Past Relatives
My grandmother grew up in Pye Bridge. Her father worked at the collary for some time. It came with some sadness though, her older sister having drownd in the canal at a young age and then her younger brother being lost in WWII age ...Read more
A memory of Pye Bridge
Captions
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A little-known fact is that Exeter was the first place to be served by an artificial canal with locks.
Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.
Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin.
Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin. The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.
The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con- structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals.
Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.
The 'Welford Arm' runs east for one and a half miles from the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal and opened in 1814.
The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.
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 locks at Fleckney are a part of the descent of the canal from its high point at Foxton into the Soar Valley.
Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when
This peaceful view shows the Lancaster Canal as it passes through Bolton-le-Sands. The canal arrived here in 1797, and transformed the village into a town.
Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.
The thirty-five mile long Manchester Ship Canal works as one great harbour, and ships moving up and down the canal have to register each movement with the control centre at Eastham.
When the Ship Canal first opened (our view is only twelve months after that opening on 1 January 1894), many people wanted to travel, and see the wonders of this new waterway.
Completed in 1794, the Basingstoke Canal is 37 miles long; it was originally planned as a major commercial route to link London and Guildford with Southampton via Andover or Winchester.
The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.
The Grand Western Canal was a 19th- century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the River Exe near Exeter.
The Monmouthshire Canal ran from Newport to Pontymoile, with a branch to Crumlin. Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance.
This is a section of the Trent and Mersey Canal lying to the west of the village. On the other side of the village is the famous Anderton Boat Lift, which was built in 1875 by E Leader Williams.
The Grand Western Canal was a 19th-century dream, planned to run from Taunton to the river Exe near Exeter.
In 1846 the Shropshire Union Canal Co was formed by the amalgamation of several companies.
The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.
driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock to fill so that the gaily painted butty boats 'Linnett' and 'Evelyn' can continue on their tandem journey along the Grand Junction Canal
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