Now I had pretty much decided that I had imagined the two sunken barges on the Rochdale Canal.
I knew I had taken pictures of them but long ago lost the prints and the negatives were old technology which, without smelly chemicals, a dark room and an enlarger was lost to me.
Various friends over the last few years confirmed my memories and even offered up their own pictures but I wanted my own.
And with Christmas came the present which scans the old negatives, and now I can once more walk along the canal at a point in its history, after it had been saved, but not before it had been gentrified.
So here are two of the lost photographs and looking at them again I am amazed I ever safely made it down the tow path.
Location; the Rochdale Canal
Pictures; the Rochdale Canal, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Various friends over the last few years confirmed my memories and even offered up their own pictures but I wanted my own.
And with Christmas came the present which scans the old negatives, and now I can once more walk along the canal at a point in its history, after it had been saved, but not before it had been gentrified.
Location; the Rochdale Canal
Pictures; the Rochdale Canal, 1979 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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