Old Quay Lock and Runcorn Bridges
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Old Quay Lock and Runcorn Bridges
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 11 May 2016
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, small sections of canals were built alongside the River Mersey to bypass both its meandering and its tidal nature. One of these was the Runcorn to Latchford Canal, which became known as the "Old Quay" Canal. Completed in 1804, this "locked out" into the Mersey estuary at Runcorn. The excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1880s, destroyed most of the Runcorn end of the Canal but this lock remains. Behind the bridge, the Runcorn Silver Jubilee Bridge can be seen crossing both the Ship Canal and the Mersey.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.34445
Longitude
-2.729798