Dover locks Abram

by Lolly Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:55 pm

Showing the Red Lion

by Cadfael Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:58 am

The moot point about this image is not the pub... but under the bridge. The lock gates are still in place, so that IS Dover Lock. At some time in the future the canal embankment will be raised.... and this lock will become redundant and the gates removed. They were removed in 1892, so this image must predate that year.

This looks like an image that has been recoloured and must have been black and white originally.

by jo anne Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:31 am

A photo of the same place a few years ago (with people blanked out Very Happy

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The pub was called Dover Lock Inn then but sadly it’s since closed.

by jo anne Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:25 am

There’s an interesting feature about the Leigh Branch subsidence here:

Link - www.llcs.org.uk (p.8 - 10)

It’s the Leigh Branch’s bicentenary at the end of 2020, and this was going to be celebrated at the annual canal festival. Unfortunately it had to be cancelled.

by Uncle Joe Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:52 pm

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there a Winding near Dover Lock that was closed about 10 years ago?

by Cadfael Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:53 pm

Uncle Joe wrote:Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there a Winding near Dover Lock that was closed about 10 years ago?

If by Winding (pronounced as in 'winding' a baby) you mean a place to turn barges, there is one still there... just north of the pub...

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by Uncle Joe Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:57 pm

Thats what I meant, a place qhere canal traffic can turn.

by jo anne Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:48 pm

From Pearson’s Canal Companion
Leeds & Liverpool
West Yorkshire Waterways

In 1972 the architectural critic and broadcaster, Ian Nairn, made a half hour programme for the BBC called Trans-Pennine Canal. His cameraman filmed the sequence following a coal-laden barge on the last lap of its six mile shuttle from Plank Lane to Wigan’s Westwood Power Station, an everyday scene that the usually perceptive Nairn omitted to comment on, probably because the soundtrack at that point was given over to some crass folksong. Before the film was broadcast the traffic had ceased.

At 3:15 Nairn reaches Leigh on the Bridgewater Canal, and later continues on to Wigan via the Leigh Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Unfortunately, the film skips the Dover Lock bit, but it’s still a great watch.

The programme is also on BBC iPlayer Smile