Canal Cuttings - the SCARS Newsletter
Volume 5, Number 10 - Autumn/Winter 2004/2005
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MAP OF THE SANKEY CANAL

Above right: ELLESWEIR and FANNY BURTON, two full sugar barges, wait on the other side of the bridge in this view taken by Peter Norton in 1957. Behind the boats are the buildings of the Mersey White Lead Company, and the railway signal box and swing bri Above: After coming out of the Sankey through one of the locks at Widnes, a sailing flat passes beneath the transporter bridge on its way down to Liverpool. Below: The first barge down the slips in 1917 when concrete barges were built at Fiddlers Ferry, was the ELMARINE, used on local barge work for many years, and still afloat in the 1980s. Left: The 1830 Seal of Sankey's Proprietors. We assume there was also an original seal dating from the Company's formation in 1754, and would welcome hearing from anyone who may have caught sight of it Above: The site of Clare and Ridgeway's boatyard at Sankey Bridges, photographed with two empty barges, ELLESPONT and MARY BURTON, belonging to TH Burton & Sons, waiting to pass through the swing bridge in 1958 (photo: Ted Large) Left: The keeper's cottage still stands beside the canal at the site of a swing bridge replaced with a fixed stone bridge in 1934 at Penkford Bridge Above: Newton Common Lock, with the famous railway viaduct behind, in a view published in The Railway Magazine for July 1952, accompanying an article by WR Watson on the building of the viaduct. For more local views, visit Steven Dowd's excellent websit Above: Bewsey Lock, which still had its lock cottage standing in Peter Norton's 1950s view Left: It had to get worse… in Harry Arnold's 1961 view of the New Double Lock and its Cottage, rubbish from the glass factory next door piles up in the chambers. They were full, and the cottage long gone, by the time SCARS began work on restoring the lo Status of the Waterway - Dotted line: in water, not navigable, or infilled, but able to be restored. Solid line: a diversion is necessary to complete restoration

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