Park Lock, Ashton Canal
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Park Lock, Ashton Canal by David Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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Park Lock, Ashton Canal
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 21 Nov 2012
Park Lock, next to Alan Turing Way. In the background is one of the two giant gasholders built for the Bradford Gasworks in the second half of the nineteenth century. One of the last reminders that up until the late 1960s, This was a heavily industrialised area. The gasworks, together with Bradford Colliery and Bradford Ironworks (Richard Johnson and Nephew) dominated a heavily industrialised landscape of which little remains apart from the two gasholders. The Eastlands regeneration area is now home to one of the Europe's biggest concentrations of sporting venues, as well as acres of green space, shops and leisure facilities and a range of canalside residential developments such as the one on the right hand side of the picture.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.485753
Longitude
-2.197078