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Lock 92

Lock 92 — on the canal that changed everything.

The Bridgewater Canal was the world’s first true industrial canal (1761), built to move coal cheaply into Manchester and ignite the factory boom. Two and a half centuries later, the lock still sits in the same footprint, carrying the legacy of the world’s first transport revolution.

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Uploaded on October 24, 2025
Taken on October 12, 2025