In the centre of this photograph is the Golden Lion Bridge carrying the Rochdale Road over the canal. These lock gates were later replaced in the 1920s with a guillotine, or vertically rising, gate.
Pictured at Library Lock. Area to rear of men is Veevers Wharf. Shop to left Melias shop, shop on right was firstly butchers shop run by ? Uttley and secondly pork butchers shop run by Mark Priestley. Then it became Bon Marche, and latterly Indian…