Canal crane
Introduction
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Canal crane
Image: © SMJ Taken: 13 May 2008
There are no locks on the Bridgewater Canal so engineers had to devise ways of blocking off sections of canal to enable work to be carried out. Cranes where located at intervals along the canal's length to allow boards to be dropped into slots in the canal banks. Such a crane still exists not far from Leigh Bridge
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Image Location
Latitude
53.493784
Longitude
-2.517115