Breach Site, Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal
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Breach Site, Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 12 Dec 2012
Looking west, past the site where the towpath and embankment were swept away when the canal was breached in 1936, a short way to the east of Nob End Locks. This picture gives an impression of the high quality massive construction of the canal wall and railway lines that had been used to reinforce the steep embankment can still be seen sticking out from the remains. (http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/collections/local-history/archivesimages02/1940loc?term=photograph&s_tags=&sort_by=Title&item_number=393&b_start:int=0 and http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/collections/local-history/archivesimages02/1941loc?term=photograph&s_tags=&sort_by=Title&item_number=394&b_start:int=0 contemporary photographs in Bolton Museum archives http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/mbb/mbbc30.htm another contemporary photograph from the John and Margaret Fletcher Collection)
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Image Location
Latitude
53.554997
Longitude
-2.371744