EAW012334 ENGLAND (1947). The St Helens Canal north of Ashton's Green, St Helens, 1947

Engine lock

Cardox engineering and explosives company.

Cardox engineering and explosives company.

Swing Bridge.

Sankey Brook

Mersey flats (barges) repair dock

Foxes farm

AKA white house or the vanny to the locals

Havannah lane

Southport street leading to Southport street colliery

Newton Road

park st

owls nest pub

Site of Parr Colliery (Havannah Pits)

Trackbed of Parr Branch (mineral railway)

Site of Parr Colliery

LNWR Havannah branch

LNWR Haydock branch

Great Central Railway, St Helens branch

Station Road

Icehouse Plantation

A580

Clipsley Brook

Vicarage Road

Central Drive

Grosvenor Road

Railway

Clipsley Lane

Route of canal - it has been restored from off the image to the left.

Sankey Brook

Black Brook

Boardmans Brow

Wagon Lane (path)

Coopers Lane (path)

The Sankey Canal, which is also known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and the St Helens Canal Opened in 1757 and then subsequent extensions; gradually abandoned between 1931 and 1963. 1775 extension to St Helens 1830s extension to Widnes 1931 closed North of Newton-le-Willows The Sankey Canal usage was primarily to move coal from the Lancashire Coalfield mines to the chemical industries of Liverpool, though iron ore and corn were also important commodities. Typical craft would be sail powered, requiring roads and railways over the canal to be on swing bridges. By 1877 the water was highly acidic and contaminated with arsenic. Restoration of the canal began in 1980