A short series bringing together for the first time pictures I took walking the Rochdale Canal from Princess Street to the Castlefield Basin.
Most have appeared before but not together in the order in which I walked the Canal back in 1979.
But given my memory and my total failure to make notes of each shot at the time I took them some may well be out of sync.
This is the end of the journey, and features pictures I don’t think I have used before.
The Rochdale Canal runs out into the Castlefield Basin under the Castle Street Bridge, at Lock 92.
In the 1970s and into the next decade this was still a shabby, slightly edgy, but wonderful place, which was, and is, at the centre of much of our industrial past.
It was a major switching hub, where the river, the new railways and the canal network met, supplying the diverse industries of the city.
Location; The Rochdale Canal
Pictures; The Rochdale Canal, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One canal …18 pictures ,walking the Rochdale Canal in 1979, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/One%20canal%2018%20pictures
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