Rushall Locks
Compstall Navigation
Tom Pudding hoist No.5
Pearl No.81
Near the top
Towards Malkin's Bank
Worsley Turn
Crossing the tank
Passing Victoria Mill
Vineyard Sound
A little local difficulty
Wooden boats
Gifford
Going Around
Lifting
Gailey
Wick tanks
Ship canal antics
Marple
Salterhebble
Tarboat at the turn
PZ14
George
Prince
Yeo
Marple locks
Royalty Class
Albion
The Harpy Boathouse
Sagging doors
Diesel, Coal, Gas
Gailey
Isabella
Leaving Mode Wheel
Heading up Bosley
Into the tunnel
Leaving Harecastle Tunnel
Pleasure boating
Boathouse
Above Stanthorne Lock
Malkin's Bank
Passing the Runcorn bridges
The tarboat and the pit
Preparing to enter Ellesmere Port
Leaving Irlam
Leaving Mode Wheel locks
A bit of glint
Preparing to unload
Unloading at Shipley
Somersault
Shipwreck
Boat dog
Bosley Locks
Black Lion, Consall
Malvern at Malkin's Bank
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Mill and Canal
Photographs of the Macclesfield Canal showing working boats are scarce and I have been seeking a view of a boat associated with the fireclay traffic for some time. The best I have managed so far is this newspaper photograph from 1934 which was taken from Sugar Lane bridge in Adlington looking toward the Clarence Mill in Bollington. If you look closely at the canal near to the chimney it appears that there is a boat there, probably bringing in coal for the boilers. Nearer to the camera is a boat at the wharf for the Clarence fireclay mine operated by John Hall & Son (Dukinfield) Limited which supplied their works in Dukinfield with up to six 18 ton boatloads of clay per week. Clay, and a small amount of coal, was brought from the mine off in the fields to the left in tubs and tipped down chutes into the boat. The boat is most likely to be named "Benefactor" as this was a regular on this run at the time. The mine closed in 1938.
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