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Liverpool Road, MANCHESTER, M3 4JR

With Beetham Tower in the distance.

This is Manchester as most people see it. The basin at the end of the Bridgewater canal, railway viaducts, a metro train, and modern features like the performance space on the left and the solid, reliable, stair furniture.

Once a warehouse covered these twin canal arms at the north end of the fan of basins. Now they are visitor moorings.

This oddly named street is adjacent to Canal basins at the original head of the Bridgewater Canal, and presumably derives from the fact that this is where agricultural produce for the city would arrive.

The narrowboat Daydream is moored in the Castlefield Basin Image off the Bridgewater Canal next to the Y Club Gym.

This plaque on a wall at Castlefield Basin Image reads: 1946 IWA 1996 THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED BY THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION, AUDREY SMITH, IN 1996 - THE ASSOCIATION'S GOLDEN JUBILEE YEAR - TO RECORD ITS LENGTHY AND SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN FOR THE INCREASED USE OF AND IMPROVEMENT TO MANCHESTER'S WATERWAYS. IT COMMEMORATES ALL THE ANNUAL BOAT RALLIES IN CASTLEFIELD,THE NATIONAL BOAT RALLY HELD IN 1988, THE INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS FESTIVAL HELD IN 1993 AND THE JUBILEE "WATERWAYS FOR ALL" EVENT HELD IN 1996. PRESENTED BY IWA NORTH WEST REGION.

The Castlefied Basin is centred on two arms of the Bridgewater Canal, shaped like a tuning fork, which allowed two barges at a time to enter the Staffordshire Warehouse to load and unload Image It was one of Castlefield's first warehouses, and around this huge building were sheds, offices and other warehouses. The warehouse has long gone and the basin is now used for short term mooring Image On the right is the Y Club Gym. The area on the left is used as an open-air event space. In the background are three nineteenth century railway viaducts crossing the Castlefield Basin.

Near the steps that lead up to Liverpool Road from Castlefield Basin Image is a bench. On the wall above are plaques commemorating Ian M Gall Image and the Staffordshire Warehouse Image

This plaque on a wall Image] at Castlefield Basin Image reads: This plaque is dedicated to the memory of IAN M. GALL 1932-2005 Ian and Eileen (his beloved wife) were known as Mr & Mrs Castlefield because of their constant campaigning for the redevelopment of the Castlefield Urban Heritage Park. They both worked tirelessly for the Inland Waterways Association for more than 25 years. IWA The Inland Waterways Association