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| MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL, Royal Assent 1885. |
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An interesting plate commemorating the Royal assent (The go a head) for the building of the Manchester Ship canal in 1885, a sort of HS2 of its day !. Although I see no commemoratives of this.
The region was suffering from the Long Depression; the canal's proponents argued that the scheme would boost competition and create jobs. They gained public support for the scheme, which was first presented to Parliament as a bill in 1882. Faced with stiff opposition from Liverpool, the canal's supporters were unable to gain the necessary Act of Parliament to allow the scheme to go ahead until 1885.
Construction took six years, beginning in 1887, and cost £15 million (equivalent to £1,774,553,339 in 2021).
When the ship canal opened in January 1894 (12 years after the very first meeting of the Manchester Ship Canal company) it was the largest river navigation canal in the world.
Interesting that Samuel Radford (1879-1957) are recorded as Bone China manufacture operating from the High St Fenton from 1885, Prior to this they were at Longton were they had produced earthenware so this was made at the time of the move !. |
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