Continuing from where I left off yesterday, this is the rest of the Port of Liverpool's 1957/58 handbook's section on inland waterway facilities.
The Shropshire Union Canal entered through the docks and locks at Ellesmere Port can be used by barges of 50 to 60 tons capacity serving the Chester and Nantwich areas, and giving direct waterway communication between theses areas of Cheshire and the Docks at Liverpool and Birkenhead.
This canal also serves Audlem, Market Drayton and Wolverhampton with direct connection at Autherley to Birmingham and the South Western Waterways Division (River Severn, Gloucester, etc.) and through Birmingham to the Waterways of the South Eastern Division (River Thames, London, etc.).
A British Waterways fleet of modern self-propelled boats operate between the Midlands and Ellesmere Port or via Middlewich and Anderton to the Weaver Navigation and Weston Point Docks.
All the canals have extensive areas alongside for industrial development, particularly suitable for works dependent on the Ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead for the imports of their raw materials or for the export of their finished products. The Waterways enable manufacturers to enjoy the facilities and advantages of Direct Overside Shipment of Goods in the Ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead while at the same time permitting their works to be decentralised and situated away from the immediate vicinity of the Port.
ROCHDALE CANAL
The Rochdale Canal Company owns extensive warehouses and wharves at Manchester, Rochdale, Heywood, Todmorden, and other places for the accommodation of merchandise of all descriptions, information respecting which can be obtained on application to the General Manager and Secretary, at the head offices, 75 Dale Street, Manchester.
And that, apart from a half-page ad from British Transport Waterways, is it as far as mention of inland waterways is concerned.
The photograph's caption reads "Good stowage, a port feature". What can one say?
No comments:
Post a Comment