This is an area in Worsley , a Manchester suburb.This is spot is the exit from tunnels from the Walkden coal mines( long since closed).Barges were pushed along in these tunnels to be unloaded at the exit into larger vessels for transport into Manchester and elswhere.The rust coloured object represents the unloading crane and the "paper clips' in the water represent the barges.Millions were spent on restoring this area a few years ago
A fascinating story, I love local history, especially that of once-thriving industries like this. Did they wheel out the coal from that tunnel on the right just beyond that footbridge?
I've visited old gold mines.copper mines, silver mines and derelict factories and various workings. My dad used to be a stoker at a brick kiln in Reading, Berkshire which has now gone and a stoker at the co-op laundry, also now gone. He used to have to move 9 tons every shift ( fill a wheelbarrow with 4 tons of coal (not in one barrow) with a shovel from a mountain of coal, shovel the same load into the boilers and then rake out and shovel out the 1ton of clinker and ashes).
Now that's what I call hard graft!
I've visited old gold mines.copper mines, silver mines and derelict factories and various workings. My dad used to be a stoker at a brick kiln in Reading, Berkshire which has now gone and a stoker at the co-op laundry, also now gone. He used to have to move 9 tons every shift ( fill a wheelbarrow with 4 tons of coal (not in one barrow) with a shovel from a mountain of coal, shovel the same load into the boilers and then rake out and shovel out the 1ton of clinker and ashes).
Now that's what I call hard graft!