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  • Collection: John Greenhalgh collection

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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.

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This lock is number 87 Princess Street Lock.

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Probably Ashton-under-Lyne

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

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Probably trolley bus wires. c1950.

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

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

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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.

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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…

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Minshull Street, Manchester. Juvenile Court is in background.

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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.

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Whalley Street, Ancoats area of Manchester

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The Deansgate Lock. The tunnel carries the Rochdale Canal under Deansgate and into Castlefield Basin where it joins the Bridgewater Canal.

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This bridge carrying Ten Acres Lane over the Rochdale Canal has since been replaced.
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