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The Duke of Bridgewater's Underground Canals: photographs

Date

1960s

Reference code

CRT/UND

Extent & medium

28 photographs; 1 typescript

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Packet House at Worsley

Surface canal used for transporting coal from local collieries to Manchester

Coal barge with view showing entrance to Delph where underground canal started

Brick work covering mine shaft known as a "jam pot"

Entrance to the Old Delph

Entrance "No 1" to underground canal with winch and sluice used to adjust water level

"No 2" entrance in sandstone face of Worsley Delph

Winch mechanism - close up view

Cow or sluice used to control water level and flush boats along tunnels

Inclined plane chamber - man and woman with torches in foreground

Inclined plane chamber with twin tunnels and 3 men

Inclined plane chamber with 3 people in foreground

Inclined plane chamber with brake spindle pillar in centre

Clow used for inclined plane in close up

Boat with workmen in underground canal

Boats in underground canal with 3 workmen with head torches

Inspecting tunnel roof - 2 men in boat in underground canal

Inspecting tunnel roof - 3 men in boat in underground canal

Inspecting tunnel roof - Loaded boat with man laying on back

Inspecting tunnel roof -legging the boat

Propelling boat by legging - against roof of underground canal

Legging the boat in underground canal

Underground canal tunnel - boat driving in

Tunnel entrance from inside - possible modern repair

Main canal with two branches - boat coming out of left tunnel

Tunnel intersection with pipe outlet

Brickwork of tunnel roof in close up

Coal Seam in underground canal with man sitting up in boat

Waters meeting - the two canals were started 30 yards apart and met within a few feet to join the main canal

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