Nowadays most of us think of the Manchester Ship Canal as that bit
of water under the Thelwell Viaduct as we sit in one of England's
traffic jam black spots but in the days before the M6, the
Manchester Ship Canal was an important route from the docks at
Salford and industrial Manchester to the world. From banana boats
to cattle carriers, from tramp steamers to pleasure steamers, all
sorts of ships used this busy thoroughfare. It wasn't always like
this - at one time the docks at Birkenhead and Liverpool received
the goods that Manchester needed and everything travelled by
railway, canal or road to the North's industrial metropolis. In the
1880s, construction on Britain's largest man-made inland waterway
and soon sizable ships sailed to Salford. A stunning engineering
project in its own right, the 'Big Ditch' also spawned smaller
marvels such as the Barton Aqueduct and it remained busy for almost
a century. Now little used, it still remains a marvel of Victorian
engineering.
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