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Worsley Street, MANCHESTER, M15 4NU

A boater's view. In 1915 there was a paper store on the east side of the basin and Worsley braid mills on the west side.

The top lock of the disused Hulme Locks at Hulme Junction, where the disused Hulme Locks Arm branches off the Bridgewater Canal. It descends three locks and turns sharply under the viaduct to link with the River Irwell. The locks are in poor condition now and the arm is no longer navigable. A new access to the River Irwell and Salford Quays has been made a little further west via Pomona Dock.

Lock on the Bridgewater Canal that once gave access to the Ship Canal; now protected by a stationary boat and boom. Above the lock, a long line of Metro trains, currently out of use because of system maintenance.

A giant poster on the side of the nineteenth century railway viaduct advertises the twenty first century apartments which have replaced the decaying industrial buildings as the area has undergone regeneration. The apartment block is on a small promontory of land known as “St George’s Island” close to the Mancunian Way. The water between the apartments and the viaduct was the Hulme Locks Junction Canal which once formed an important connection between the Bridgewater Canal and the River Irwell / Manchester Ship Canal. The Hulme Locks Junction Canal was only 200 metres in length. It opened in 1938 but has fallen into a state decline today having been replaced by a new lock which was built in 1995 near to Pomona Dock Number 3. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside.html - Manchester History Net

The entrance lock from the Bridgewater Canal to the short connection with the Manchester Ship Canal. This lock was not used as a lock, as the original three locks had been replaced by a single deep lock around the corner under the railway in the 1960s. In 1990 however, this route was open. It was closed in 1995, as replaced by a new lock connecting to Pomona Dock further downstream.

At the junction with the Bridgewater Canal. Built in 1838 to connect the Rochdale Canal and the Mersey & Irwell Navigation [forerunner of the Manchester Ship Canal]. Fell out of use in 1995 when the more convenient Pomona lock was opened.

This was the old link between the Bridgewater Canal and Manchester Docks. It has been replaced by the new Pomona Lock a bit further south west.