I won’t be alone in collecting old canal warehouses.
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| The warehouse, 2021 |
They were during the 18th and early 19th century at the cutting edge of design, and were later copied by the first railway companies as the template for warehouse design.
They were created to solve the need to tranship goods from canal to road, and road to canal, and consisted of entrances on both sides from which produce could be brought into the warehouse and stored for onward shipment.
These entrances were known as loop-holes and were supplemented by large arches at water level which allowed boats to enter the building.
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| The warehouse, coal year, wharf, 1900 |
So I was more than pleased that on Andy’s adventure to Lymm, he took a slight detour and ended y past Warrington Lane and took the pictures of the warehouse which sits beside the Duke’s canal.
The site has changed very little in the last 150 years, and if I had access to maps from the late 18th and early 19th centuries I am sure they would show the same.
And that pretty much is that, other than to say I will go looking for any plans for the redevelopment of the warehouse.
Location, on the Bridgewater Canal,
Picture; the warehouse, 2021, from the collection of Andy Robertson, and the site in 1900, from theOS map of Cheshire, 1900courtesy of Digital Archives Association, https://digitalarchives.co.uk/
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