This too was one possibility I had considered. It is really sad that with all there is to learn about the ship canal there is no place that lays out the operation of the several different types of bridge along it's length.
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This too was one possibility I had considered. It is really sad that with all there is to learn about the ship canal there is no place that lays out the operation of the several different types of bridge along it's length.
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Anyway..............
Approaching Salford Quays with the Holiday Inn, BBC - Media City and other 21st Century steel and glass up ahead.
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Wayne Rooney.
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The Goodyear blimp came out to meet us. That's the Imperial War Museum on the right and there's compalints about the shape of our new museum
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The Grade II listed Rank Hovis mill with its wheat emblem. Notice the modern swing bridge is open with its roadway leading nowhere but into the dock at the moment.
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The shiny Quay Theatre complex.
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The last bridge we have to negotiate. Again rising on four columns with weighted slab counter balances.
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Canalside apartments.
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It was 4.30pm now and a long day but we still had 2 hours to kill in Manchester. It seemed so strange to see our Daf in such surroundings. A mighty bit of Liverpool History 35 miles to the East.
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Media City area.
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The Ferry docked beneath the Lowry outlet Mall.
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Boo hiss.....
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The Lowry Centre
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The media City/BBC area again, from a different angle.
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Harbour City at 6.30pm.
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And that's about it. Hope you enjoyed our day as much as we did.
Dunno Chris.
One did though as I watched it do it. came back I would say about 6-10 foot.
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Brill stuff Ged and Spike. Didn't take any pics of the bus trip back then ?
Some old Liverpool pics I found
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What Smurf, from out the window of a fleet of Arivva double deckers coming down the M62 in the pitch black
Great pics Ged.
I will post a few later. Im far too busy at the mo looking for ancestors of a certain person you know.
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I think the apparent 'pull-back' is an optical illusion.
We're getting there...
http://homepages.tesco.net/frankshac...5/section5.htm
It may be.
We were heading towards it and it did appear to pull back before swinging. Maybe it was the angle I was looking from. We were a bit away from it when it started to move.
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Yes, things are not helped by the fact that these bridges are pivoted off-centre.
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I am so glad you both made it home in one piece...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lamppost-sa...233854389.html
It was the angle of the dangle.
Something must have been said at the outset in that side street to upset the driver.
Cracker pics and posts lads. Well done.
Keeping it real!
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A few more pics
Houses at Latchford Lock. Maybe the old homes for the Lock Keepers?
On the high seas....Well Canal
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Just posting this one as I like it. Some nice scenes along the way.
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This is where coal used to be unloaded. The big stone squares would be filled with the coal.
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I will post a few more tomorrow.
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