New Canal Link

[gregs dad]

Hi Stan,from Fazakerley the left hand side is still green with the Kirkby golf course, but the old bluebell woods, and the R A F camp is gone.

[taffy]

Interesting set of photos of the whole canal including the new section in Liverpool

http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/li...link/link3.htm

[Howie]

Interesting set of photos of the whole canal including the new section in Liverpool

http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/li...link/link3.htm

Excellent! I see from the PW website that there is already a list of 150 narrowboats waiting for the go ahead to make the passage into Liverpool.

[Waterways]

Excellent! I see from the PW website that there is already a list of 150 narrowboats waiting for the go ahead to make the passage into Liverpool.

Probably novelty value to ride the new canal. I would rather large sea going historic and tall ships enter those docks, not inland canal barges.

[gregs dad]

A plaque on the canal commerating the site were the old incinerator was in Bootle

Another one on the wall of the dismantled rail bridge which brought coal into
the Linacre Rd gas works.

One of the many bricked up entrances on the canal, to the Linacre Rd gasworks where coal was delivered from the barges, so they used rail and canal to supplythe gasworks

An old gas lamp post on the Litherland Rd bridge with a blackbird perched on top and gasometers in the background

The plaque on Litherland Rd bridge,seems like everybody wanted their name on it.

[gregs dad]

A few narrow boat visitors this weekend in the Salthouse

The Duck,a dragon boat,kayak,and narrow boats in the Salthouse dock

[Howie]

[gregs dad]

Bridge Number 0 in Bootle after this the rest of the bridges into Liverpool were given letters.

From under Litherland bridge, the remnants of the old lift bridge can be seen by the staircase

British Waterway`s employee painting over some graffiti on lock 4 at the Stanley Locks

[gregs dad]

All the world is at peace with this fisherman.
The canal at Bootle from a footbridge

[gregs dad]

looks like the link is being used more frequently now

I think I would have covered Chelsea`s name up in Liverpool

The Duck passes the narrow boats as it emerges from the Salthouse Dock

[Waterways]

All the world is at peace with this fisherman.
The canal at Bootle from a footbridge

Amazing. In Liverpool they put walls up to hide the canal. Elsewhere the open up to them.

[gregs dad]

Amazing. In Liverpool they put walls up to hide the canal. Elsewhere the open up to them.

I think the majority of walls were built when there was industrial buildings on the canal sides.

[Ged]

That's right because if you look at where they've built relatively recently alongside the canal, say at the Eldonian and Athol village, you can come straight out of your door onto canalside living.

[Waterways]

That's right because if you look at where they've built relatively recently alongside the canal, say at the Eldonian and Athol village, you can come straight out of your door onto canalside living.

If the canal is opened up there will be much more respect for it and canal boaters, who dread the rat run through Liverpool's north end, having to ride in convoy with security because of attacks by vandals and missiles.

Taking the walls down should be a priority, as everyone gains.

[wsteve55]

I remember that ,sometime in the early '90's,there were calls from local people,to fill that section of the canal in! This was due to a drowning accident,involving a young person/child! Well,of course,it didn't come to that,but the walls, etc, do restrict access to some degree,for some of the new housing,so from a health & safety point of view,that's probably why they are there,and why they'll stay!(There have been many ponds,and even lakes, filled in over the years,because of this)