Peter Stockdale wrote... >--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a message dated 15/05/2007 18:13:16 GMT Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> Looking through my recent(ish) photos, the only thing I can >>> spot which might be evidence is something that looks a bit >>> like an overspill hole above Lock 86 (Canal Street) >> >> When I did the flight a few years ago, about 6 locks down >> there was some sort of spillway. The water came through >> with so much force it wasn't possible to get past it without >> being thrown across to the other side of the cut. > >The best I can come up with from my archive is - >http://www.geocities.com/thecanalshop/Rochdale1027.jpg > >which seems to show the exit hole at the bottom of Tib. > Doesn't seem very big! Perhaps there wasn't so much water rushing down in those days!
>There is also Martin's one of the top of Deansgate - >http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/manchester/man091.jpg > Yes, I was looking at that one myself, and wondering whether that was the site of a bywash or the entrance to an old arm. >I am pretty sure that the one in between, at Albion Mills was still >fuctioning as was the one at Dukes. I was speaking to Steve Connolly tonight, who says he remembers that there was a bywash that went behind the lock cottage at Lock 92 (Duke's Lock). -- Martin Clark Internet Boaters' Database http://www.boaterweb.co.uk Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
