John Greenhalgh collection

Rochdale Canal at Littleborough - JGC00121

The horse drawn pleasure boat William passes what is now known as the Waterside Inn at Littleborough, which was originally known as the Railway Inn.

Rochdale Canal from Princess Street, Manchester - JGC00120

This lock is number 87 Princess Street Lock.

Rochdale Canal in 1950s before restoration. - JGC00118

Princes Bridge 1905 - JGC00116

Bridge no. 4584.

Drive Shaft from Water Wheel - JGC00115

Probably Ashton-under-Lyne

Water Wheel - JGC00114

Either water wheel at Ashton-under-Lyne or one that was found under Dale Street car park.

Rochdale Canal, Manchester - JGC00113

Clayton, Manchester - JGC00112

Probably trolley bus wires. c1950.

Bridge over Rochdale Canal - JGC00111

Butler Lane lock, Lock 81, in Miles Platting.
6th April, 1908.

Princess Street in Manchester. 1954 - JGC00110

Rochdale Canal, Manchester - JGC00109

Rochdale Canal, Manchester - JGC00108

The very last lock of the Rochdale Canal before it goes into Castlefield, where it joined the Bridgewater Canal.

Dale Street, Manchester - JGC00107

The beginning of both the Ashton Canal, straight ahead, and the Rochdale Canal, to the left. The Rochdale Canal continues to Castlefield where it joins the Bridgewater Canal.

Bridgewater Canal, Castlefield - JGC00106

West end of the tunnel at Gaythorn. 29th September 1899.

Considered by many to be the first canal in England, the Bridgewater was engineered by James Brindley for the Duke of Bridgewater to transport coal from his mines at Worsley to the growing…

Rochdale Canal - JGC00105

Minshull Street, Manchester. Juvenile Court is in background.

Ashton Canal - JGC00104

Note the narrow lock. The area around it has now been redeveloped as an industrial estate.

Built by Benjamin Outram and completed in 1797, the Ashton Canal closed in 1961 and reopened in 1974.