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The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24.3 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as it passed through Pendleton, heading northwest to Prestolee before it split northwest to Bolton and northeast to Bury. Between Bolton and Bury the canal was level and required no locks. Six aqueducts were built to allow the canal to cross the rivers Irwell and Tonge and several minor roads.
The canal was commissioned in 1791 by local landowners and businessmen and built between 1791 and 1808, during the Golden Age of canal building, at a cost of £127,700 (£9.73 million today).Originally designed for narrow gauge boats, during its construction the canal was altered into a broad gauge canal to allow an ultimately unrealised connection with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The canal company later converted into a railway company and built a railway line close to the canal's path, which required modifications to the Salford arm of the canal.
Most of the freight carried was coal from local collieries but, as the mines reached the end of their working lives sections of the canal fell into disuse and disrepair and it was officially abandoned in 1961. In 1987 a society was formed with the aim of restoring the canal for leisure use and, in 2006, restoration began in the area around the junction with the River Irwell in Salford. The canal is currently navigable as far as Oldfield Road, Salford.
The main building of the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, Panama, is between the two series of locks.
Locks on the Ponte Vecchio are put there by lovers. After "locking" their love on one of the horse tethers, they throw the key over the bridge into the Arno River to "seal" their love!
Today, early morning, under a cold rain... I was walking through Ponte Vecchio going to work and for the first time in 7 year I decided to take some pictures of this interesting usage... I think for this time, to lock my new love I'm going to buy some locks, just in case...
2nd October 2010 and lms steam locomotive 5690 Leander storms over Dutton Viaduct as seen from Dutton Locks
A pair of narrowbaots make off, having negotiated a set of locks at Whilton locks, Northamptonshire. 22nd April 2017
At the Basilica du Sacre Coeur the forecourt is full of street sellers flogging locks to hang on the fences. The view from the square over Paris is stunning as you try and identify landmarks in the distance.
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A favourite place to stroll around with my camera. Here is a boat that has gone through Hillmorton middle lock and is now going onto the lower lock. Hillmorton is the busiest set of locks on the UK Canal network.
Canal boats moored at the top of Caen Hill's remarkable flight of 16 locks on the Kennet and Avon canal near Devizes! See here: canalrivertrust.org.uk/directory/3044/caen-hill-locks
The waterfall and locks descending from the Pawtucket and Eastern Canals to the Concord River in Lowell, Massachusetts. The canals were built in the 1800s to provide power and transporation to Lowell's former textile mills.
For more information on the Lowell canal system, see www.nps.gov/lowe/planyourvisit/lowell-waterways.htm.
Foxton Locks are ten canal locks consisting of two "staircases" each of five locks, located on the Leicester line of the Grand Union Canal about three miles west of the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough. They date from 1810 and are named after the nearby village of Foxton. They form the northern terminus of a 20-mile summit level that passes Husbands Bosworth, Crick and ends with the Watford flight
Staircase locks are used where a canal needs to climb a steep hill, and consist of a group of locks where each lock opens directly into the next, that is, where the bottom gates of one lock form the top gates of the next. Foxton Locks are the largest flight of such staircase locks on the English canal system.
At the bottom of the flight is the Foxton Locks Inn, the cream-coloured building just right of centre. This is a very popular pub-restaurant. Just beyond it, out of shot, is the junction for the Market Harborough Arm of the canal.