Harry Arnold's Historic Views of the Sankey
Part1: Winwick Quay

1: Looking across the canal at the main doors of the Repair Works building. The date of its building, 1841, is set out in the brick diamond. The bell and weather vane were still in place when he paid his first visit in May, 1962, after the canal ceased working in 1959, but before its official closure in 1963.

2: The whitewash on the Repair Works building looks quite fresh in 1962. The view inside the yard on our back page shows it's still fading even now). The former Ship Inn to its left looks in good repair, debris from a boat shows that the dry dock in the foreground had been used for cutting it up. Note the keeper's cottage which few remembered until seeing this view.

3: Debris from scrapped vessels, and the blocks upon which flats would rest in the dock, along with the crane for lifting the bridge aside, show the dry dock still looking ready for work in 1962.

4: A much changed scene by August 1974, in this view from the M62 embankment which blocked the line of the canal. The keeper's cottage, along with that at Hulme Lock below, as well as the dry dock crane, are all gone, and reeds are filling the channel.

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