IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Decks, RUNCORN, WA7 1GG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Decks, WA7 1GG by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (148 Images Found)
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250 Ton Crane, Manchester Ship Canal
The crane was built in 1937 in the Netherlands but the steam plant is British through and through. The big engine is an Ashworth and Parker of Bury compound driving a pair of dynamos for the Ward Leonard DC system driving the crane's lifting drums. The engine in the background is disused and drove the salvage compressor. Steam is raised in a hand fired twin furnace Scotch boiler.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 13 Jan 1990
0.02 miles
2
The Manchester Ship Canal, Runcorn
Stunning view from Old Quay. My platform is the 250 Ton Crane, a floating steam crane that is believed to be still in use. This was a with permission visit on a stinking hot day.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 31 Jul 1999
0.02 miles
3
The 250 Ton Crane, Old Quay, Runcorn
Steam powered floating crane that was in use for lock gate changing and is believed to be still in use. This requires the biggest Meccano set.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 31 Jul 1999
0.03 miles
4
Manchester Ship Canal and river Mersey
This view will change forever with the construction of the new bridge , the Mersey Gateway.
Image: © Galatas
Taken: 18 Jan 2011
0.04 miles
5
Silly b***er, The 250 Ton Crane, Runcorn
Silly boiler I mean. Artistic license on the vessel's hand-fired, coal-burning Scotch marine boiler.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 31 Jul 1999
0.04 miles
6
Runcorn reach
One reason for this wide stretch of the Manchester Ship Canal was that it enabled the tallest craft to layover while parts of their superstructure were removed for the passage to Manchester and back; some bridges beyond this point afforded a slightly lower headroom than below Runcorn.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 6 Oct 2008
0.05 miles
7
Old Quay Lock and Runcorn Bridges
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, small sections of canals were built alongside the River Mersey to bypass both its meandering and its tidal nature. One of these was the Runcorn to Latchford Canal, which became known as the "Old Quay" Canal. Completed in 1804, this "locked out" into the Mersey estuary at Runcorn. The excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1880s, destroyed most of the Runcorn end of the Canal but this lock remains.
Behind the bridge, the Runcorn Silver Jubilee Bridge can be seen crossing both the Ship Canal and the Mersey.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 11 May 2016
0.07 miles
8
250 Ton Crane, Old Quay, Runcorn
The steam powered 250 Ton Crane at the Manchester Ship Canal Company's Old Quay site. This complex, including the large lock gate repair shed is now shown as cleared. The crane was workable but its boiler has now failed. John Howarth reported seeing it in the Weston Point Docks at Runcorn in 2010.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 13 Jan 1990
0.07 miles
9
Manchester Ship Canal
Disused lock at Runcorn.
Image: © Alan Heardman
Taken: 13 Jul 2014
0.07 miles
10
Canal side apartments
Beside the Manchester Ship Canal.
Image: © John M
Taken: 9 Nov 2014
0.07 miles