Rochdale Canal, Piccadilly
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Image: © michael ely Taken: 16 Dec 2008
This is where the canal passes beneath Dale Street between locks 84 and 85. It is quite threatening here, hardly the feature developers use to market city centre waterside living. It stinks of urine and is redolent of rent boys.