EPW005003 ENGLAND (1920). The Northwich Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal at Wilderspool, Warrington, 1920

ELLESMERE ROAD, LINE OFF HOUSES.LINE UP WITH GREENHALL,S AV ON OTHER SIDE OF CANAL,CANAL CUT IT OF.

SMALL BRIDGE HERE OVER RUNCORN & LATCHFORD CANAL, WHICH WAS MAIN ROAD FROM RUNCORN WARRINGTON ELLESMERE RD, PAST STAG PUB,TO GREENHALL, AV NO SHIP CANAL SOLID LAND THEN BEFORE CANAL.

RUNCORN & LACHFORD CANAL SLOW BEND ORIGINALLY ALL ONE CANAL FROM RUNCORN, THRU LOCK BLACK BEAR CANAL AT TWENTY STEPS LOCK WHEN SHIP CANAL CUT IT OF.

TWENTY STEPS BARGE LOCK, 85 L X 19.6 W FEET. JOINED RUNCORN & LATCHFORD CANAL TO THE LEFT OF WALTON LOCK SLOW BEND, BEFORE SHIP CANAL WAS BUILT WHICH CUT THE BEND OF. THEN NO ACCESS.

Northwich Road Swing Bridge,120 FOOT SPAN SHIP CANAL, STEEL WORK 1,350 TONS

WARRINGTON WHARF, 300 FOOT LONG, 26 FEET WATER DEPTH, ONE STEAM CRANE. THEN

WALTON LOCK, 150 FEET LONG, 30 FEET WIDE.

ACTON GRANGE VIADUCT, WEIGHT OF STEEL WORK 1,946 TONS, SPAN 120 FEET, HEAD WAY 74 FEET 6 INCH, L.M.& S. & G.W. MAIN LINE AT THAT TIME.

CHESTER ROAD SWING BRIDGE, SPAN 120 FEET, STEEL WORK 790 TONS.

MILLBANK VILLA.

RUNCORN & LACHFORD CANAL,OR BEFORE THAT THE MERSEY & IRWELL CANAL. DISUSED AT THIS TIME.

SAND PUMP.

MERSEY

WALTON HEY FARM

CRANBORNE AV.

LANDSEER AV, THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDENS ARE THE RIVER BANK, THE FOOT PATH BEHIND THEM IS THE LINE OF THE RIVER

FROM THE RIVER TO THIS EMBANKMENT RAISED TO STOP FLOODING WAS SAND. ISTHE ROUGH LINE OF GAINSBORO ROAD

MORLEY COMMON

FORD HOUSE FARM

BARONET FARM,

ARPLEY MEADOWS, WHY THAT FROM RIVER RD TO IRWELL RD WAS MUD DOWN TO THE LOCK, GANISBRO TO MEADOW AV TO 10 SEMIS PAST SILVERDALE RD WAS SAND

RIVER VIEW HOUSES

CROSSBROOKE VIEW, WITH ALL THE GREEN HOUSE BEHIND THEM.

WILDERSPOOL HOUSE,

WILDERSPOOL TERRACE.

GREEN BANK

Greenall's old cricket ground

SITE OF THE NOW MORRISONS SUPRMARKET

GREENALL WHITLEY BREWERY

Naylors Wood Yard and Wharf - both sides of the Chester Road.

The Chester Road (A56) Swing Bridge

The new cut for the River Mersey, created when the Manchester Ship Canal was built in the 1890s.

Walton Lock - now silted up, despite there being a right of navigation guaranteed when the Manchester Ship Canal was built to preserve access to the Warrington quays deprived of water by the creation of the new navigation.

Walton Dock, formed from the junction of the by-passed Mersey.

Original line of the River Mersey - closed off at the building of the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1890s.

Black Bear Canal

Northwich Road (A49) Swing Bridge

Manchester Ship Canal