Canal Cuttings - the SCARS Newsletter
Volume 5, Number 12 - Summer 2005
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Lock Cottages of the Sankey

Help needed: We have, as yet, no photographs of the two locks indicated, Hey and Winwick, between Haydock and Hulme Locks. Please get in touch if you have any ideas about where such photographs might exist.

The photographs used in this feature have been gathered together by the Society over the past two decades. As our feature on our archives shows, we are still gathering in valuable historic photographs, and would welcome the opportunity to copy any others which come to light.

Contact: Peter Keen (details on About SCARS page).

Above: No picture exists of the cottage which stood beside the Old Double Lock when seen by Harry Arnold in 1961. Also gone before then was the cottage at the next lock down, Engine Lock. Left: The Woodend Locks cottage at Widnes was in the frame in September 1957, when the Railway & Canal Historical Society celebrated the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Sankey by cruising a length of the canal in the Leeds & Liverpool Canal short-boat LEO Above: The cottage for the Lock, the shed at the repair yard, and the Swing Bridge cottage at Fiddlers Ferry, as seen by Benjamin Hobson in about 1900. Above: Peter Norton's view of the cottage at Bewsey Lock in about 1957. 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 Above: Hulme Lock cottage, site of a major archaeological project by SCARS' working parties. The picture was taken by Theo Barker for his thesis on the Sankey in 1948. Above: The site of another major dig by our work parties - Newton Common Lock cottage (See 'Help needed' below) Above: An undated picture of Bradley Lock cottage, with one of the chimeys of the nearby Sankey Sugar Works behind. The cottage at the New Double Locks survived for a while after Harry Arnold took this view of it in 1961

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