IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Chestnut Avenue, ST. HELENS, WA11 0EY
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Chestnut Avenue, WA11 0EY by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (29 Images Found)
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Old Double Lock on Sankey Canal, Blackbrook
The Sankey Canal, also known as the Sankey Brook Navigation, was opened in 1757 and originally ran from the mouth of Sankey Brook at the River Mersey along the Sankey Valley to St Helens. Actually the first canal in Britain, it was built to transport coal from the mines of St Helens and Haydock to the River Mersey. This is the old double lock south of Blackbrook Road. It is a two-rise stone staircase lock built in 1758 and is the oldest British example of a staircase lock although the gates have been removed and the lock is now preserved as a cascade.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 7 Sep 2008
0.14 miles
4
Modern Canal Milestone, Sankey Canal
On the towpath of the Blackbrook extension. SE of Blackbrook Road/Stanley Bank (A58).
Milestone Society National ID: SAN-10AR
Image: © Barrie Pennington
Taken: 10 Jan 2019
0.15 miles
5
Looking down the Old Double Locks
These locks were the first double locks to be constructed in England. The Sankey Brook Navigation was opened in 1757. The canal forks above this point, with one branch going to the Blackbrook Basin terminus, and the other to the Gerards Bridge terminus. When the railways were built in the area, wherever they crossed the canal they had to accommodate the masts of the sailing flats which used the canal. Here, beyond the pipe, may be seen the foundations of a railway swing bridge, built to allow the boats to pass unhindered. The locks were "restored" in about 1974 by forming the cascade through the chambers, and collapsing part of the walls.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 8 Feb 2007
0.15 miles
6
Footbridge over St Helens Canal, Blackbrook
Image: © Gary Rogers
Taken: 29 Apr 2017
0.15 miles
7
Old Locks on St Helens canal
These locks where filled in the 1970's. Possibly for safety reasons.
Image: © C Rogers
Taken: 15 Nov 2005
0.15 miles
8
Sankey Valley Park St Helens
Disused canal - set of weirs in old lock.
Image: © Eileen Littler
Taken: 4 Mar 2012
0.15 miles
9
The Old Double Lock on the Sankey Canal
View of the partially filled in chamber
Image: © Raymond Knapman
Taken: 23 Jul 2010
0.16 miles
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Old double locks, St Helens Canal, Blackbrook
Image: © Gary Rogers
Taken: 29 Apr 2017
0.17 miles