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The Leeds and Liverpool Canal crossing Yorkshire Street in Blackburn.

Looking eastwards along Yorkshire Street we see it dominated by the aqueduct carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. This structure dates, not from the original opening of the waterway, but from 1927. Even by the 1890s, the original aqueduct which was slightly further to the east, was found to be unduly constricting to traffic along the street, so side arches were bored in that year to take the pedestrian traffic: this, however, was not a sufficient solution, as all the room on the road was taken up by the double track of tramway that was then in situ. So in 1927 this entirely new structure was put in place and the old aqueduct demolished. Beyond the aqueduct can be seen the Princess Royal pub, and beyond that is St. Mary's Roman Catholic church.

The Burnley Embankment, known locally as "The Straight Mile", carries The Leeds and Liverpool Canal 60ft above the town. When the canal was being built here at the end of the eighteenth century, Robert Whitworth, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Engineer decided that an embankment, almost a mile long and up to sixty feet high, straight to the opposite hillside should be built rather than having the canal take a long detour following the contours around the valley, Although it was costly to construct, it meant the valley could be traversed by the canal without the need for two systems of locks. Half-way along the embankment, the canal crosses Yorkshire Street on an aqueduct, known locally as ‘t’Culvert’ https://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/walking-the-canal-accrington-burnley-and-nelson/ . It was constructed in 1926 to replace the original one built in the 1790s.

The Burnley Embankment, known locally as "The Straight Mile", carries The Leeds and Liverpool Canal 60ft above the town. When the canal was being built here at the end of the eighteenth century, Robert Whitworth, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Engineer decided that an embankment, almost a mile long and up to sixty feet high, straight to the opposite hillside should be built rather than having the canal take a long detour following the contours around the valley, Although it was costly to construct, it meant the valley could be traversed by the canal without the need for two systems of locks. Half-way along the embankment, the canal crosses Yorkshire Street on an aqueduct, known locally as ‘t’Culvert’. It was constructed in 1926 to replace the original one built in the 1790s.

The west portal of the aqueduct for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on its straight mile of embankment above the streets of Burnley

Aqueduct, carrying the Leeds and Liverpool Canal over Yorkshire Street in Burnley.

The lads are on the Yorkshire Street aqueduct or culvert as it is known locally.