The Lodge, The Towers, Didsbury
Introduction
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Image: © Keith Williamson Taken: 14 Dec 2005
The Towers was the home of Daniel Adamson, the Victorian engineer who was a leading promoter and backer of the campaign to build the Manchester Ship Canal. The blue plaque commemorates the inaugral meeting of that campaign, held here on 27th June 1882. ( See also Image ) For an account of the life of Adamson's sister, Elizabeth, and an account of Adamson's reception by the people of Didsbury following the passing of the Ship Canal Act see http://www.g4fas.net/fmmm.htm (courtesy of Geoff Royle, http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/27109 )