One of series of photographs taken by David Dewsbury of Bollington Civic Society History Group on Sunday 24 April 1983 See 150/1-38
Categories: Tramway
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Canal burst
Picture shows the aftermath of the canal breach (burst) – a tramway has been set up to convey fill to the hole in order to repair it.
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Quarry tramway
See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. Connected Endon quarries to the Macclesfield canal.
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Quarry tramway
See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. The ‘Rally Road’, as it was called, connected Endon quarry to the Macclesfield canal. Constructed soon after the opening of the canal but closed by the 1870s.