This is another of those industrial buildings Andy stumbled across on his walk along the Bridgewater Canal.
And like the others, I thought it was promising.
Despite it’s modern roof and squat appearance, it had all the signs of being a canal warehouse with age.
The original arched entrance and loading hatch were still there, although sometime in the past they had been bricked up.
It shows up on the 1907 OS map of Cheshire as “Canal Storage”, and there looks to be a building on the same spot in 1875, but beyond that I am at present stumped.
I have nor earlier maps of Cheshire, and my canal maps dating from the 1830s are not detailed enough to show individual warehouses.
So for now it’s a mystery. It might date back to the construction of the canal or soon afterwards.
But someone will know, so I shall just wait and see.
And for those interested to look it up, it is in a builder's yard behind the Old Packet House on Navigation Road.
The post script.
I said someone would no and sure enough research has been done. John Anthony located other warehouses close by, commenting "here had been fairly extensive canal wharves, mainly for coal, but also in close proximity to a brass foundry and a sawmill. To the north was the LNWR goods yard at Broadheath station, a farm and a school. It is possible these two canal stores had been used for non-coal products and materials, for example, raw cotton and finished goods that needed protection from the elements (and undesirables), and transhipment to / from local forms of transport".
While Derek Watts, turned up the 1835 tithe map which shows our warehouse.
So a job well done, and a thnak you
Location; Altrincham
Picture; that warehouse, 2020, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and detail from the 1907 OS map of Cheshire, courtesy of Digital Archives http://www.digitalarchives.co.uk/
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