IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Waterfront, MANCHESTER, M11 4BX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Waterfront, M11 4BX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (177 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
1
Ashton Canal
Lock #7 on the Ashton Canal from Alan Turing Way.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 23 Mar 2010
0.00 miles
2
Park Lock, Ashton Canal
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.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Nov 2012
0.03 miles
3
Houses in Stuart Street
On the north side of the Ashton Canal.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 9 May 2014
0.03 miles
4
Cylindrical apartment block beside Ashton Canal
Image: © David Martin
Taken: 2 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
5
Canalside housing
What a shame that the high fences discourage the trimming of excess vegetation.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 7 Aug 2013
0.04 miles
6
Narrowboat heading west, Ashton Canal
Approaching Lock 7, above Forge Lane Bridge.
Image: © Christine Johnstone
Taken: 9 May 2014
0.04 miles
7
Ashton Canal, Lock 7
Lock 7 was named Park Lock after the nearby Philips Park, the world's first Municipal Park.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Nov 2012
0.04 miles
8
Ashton Canal
Lock-keepers Cottage on the Ashton Canal.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 17 Oct 2014
0.05 miles
9
Lock keeper's cottage
Not built at the same time as the canal - it has the date 1865 under the porch http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3592981 . Located alongside Lock No.7 - Park or Beswick Lock - and Listed Grade II.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 7 Aug 2013
0.05 miles
10
Date stone on the lock keeper's cottage
An unusually impressive feature for a small dwelling http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3592977 .
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 7 Aug 2013
0.05 miles