--- In [email protected], Martin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >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 >
Far too narrow to be an old arm ! There was a similar channel at Dale St. lock which was probably the start of the obliterated bywash there. The Dukes bywash goes down to the Irwell as I believe the Duke wanted to reduce the amount of nasty Rochdale water entering his pristine waters ! I must get down there shortly to update my tiny brain cells. Regards Pete
