Shows a narrowboat moored below top lock 1 at Bosley on the Macclesfield canal. Pictured off Bull Lane bridge 54.
Categories: Narrow boat
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Canal Boat at 1974 Festival
Narrowboat ‘Jupiter’ coming through. Needham’s woodyard in the background.
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Macclesfield Canal at Hurst Lane bridge
A beautiful picture of a horse drawn boat load of stone on the Macclesfield Canal approaching Hurst Lane bridge, no.26. Note the lack of overgrowth, the wide clean towpath and the telephone poles and wires. In the distance smoke rises from Oak Bank mill chimney.
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Boat being removed from Bloors yard, Round Gardens
The steel hull of the narrow boat had been manufactured elsewhere, then delivered to Mr Bloor’s yard in Round Gardens (behind the Dog & Partridge), where he spent many months fitting it out. The picture shows the completed boat being removed to be taken to the canal for launching into the water. Access into this yard for both the crane and the trailer was extremely difficult because of the very narrow street and the acute turns.
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Lengthsman on canal near Styperson
A lengthsman is responsible for the maintenance of a length of canal. Albert Wood worked for the canal company, in 1935 this was the London North Eastern Railway Co. (LNER) who came to own the canal by default in 1923. The picture shows the narrow workboat standing on the bottom of the drained canal. The plank laid on the canal bed is to provide a footpath out of the mud to the work site which was probably a bridge behind the camera. Hareta would have been delivering Albert’s lunch; she would have walked up from Bollington where they lived.
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Sunday School trip on LNER Engineer’s work boat
Locations of named persons available on catalogue card 53/74. Please ask Volunteer staff for contact details.
At that time, 1945, the Macclesfield Canal was owned by the London North Eastern Railway Co. (LNER). This was because the original owners, the Manchester Sheffield & Lincoln Railway Co. (MSLR), went to the LNER at amalgamation in 1923. The MSLR had bought the canal, together with the Peak Forest and Ashton canals, in 1847.
