EPW027828 ENGLAND (1929). Telford's Quay and the Manchester Ship Canal, Ellesmere Port, 1929

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EAW415732
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Manylion

Pennawd [EPW027828] Telford's Quay and the Manchester Ship Canal, Ellesmere Port, 1929
Cyfeirnod EPW027828
Dyddiad June-1929
Dolen
Enw lle ELLESMERE PORT
Plwyf
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 340545, 377266
Hydred / Lledred -2.8919864610318, 53.288746530507
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SJ405773

Pinnau

Interesting how the allotments (vegetable gardens) stand at the centre of this industrial scene. Not only did people live close to their work, companies often provided space for such activities.

Maurice
Friday 31st of May 2013 06:20:35 AM

FermePark
Thursday 14th of March 2013 08:45:33 PM
Both wide and narrow barges and wide and narrow locks to suit. The larger barges would have changed the nature of canal operations if they had been more widely used across the UK in the way larger barges are still widely (sorry about the pun) used across Europe.

Maurice
Tuesday 5th of March 2013 08:10:36 AM
Swing bridge open to water traffic.

Maurice
Tuesday 5th of March 2013 08:00:43 AM

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:46:41 PM
Merseyton Road

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:43:29 PM

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:42:05 PM
I feel this looks more like a grain silo than a warehouse. Importing ships would discharge into the silo at the canal end and flour carried to the mill by a covered conveyor at the inland end.

Maurice
Tuesday 5th of March 2013 08:05:55 AM
Just for the record the map evidence is as follows:

the 1911 1:2500 OS describes this building as Goods Shed.

The 1957 1:2500 OS describes the building on the same footprint as Warehouse.

The 1929 1:10560 also calls the building a Goods Shed.

For all that I can see your explanation Maurice which makes sense.

Class31
Tuesday 5th of March 2013 10:09:56 AM
Grain warehouse or grain silo - What's in a name? While the OS were normally very good at getting things right, perhaps they slipped here. Alternatively it may be that I am using a modernism with the use of the word silo.... when did it come into usage here? Silo via Latin from Greek 'siros' - cornpit. I suspect modern usage has origins in the USA.

Maurice
Wednesday 6th of March 2013 01:29:53 PM
See EPW036418 Here we have a grain silo in 1931! Clearly the word was around.

Maurice
Thursday 7th of March 2013 06:37:30 AM

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:40:21 PM

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:39:20 PM
Shropshire Row

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 10:38:41 PM
Shropshire Union Canal

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 04:29:56 PM
Manchester Ship Canal

Class31
Monday 4th of March 2013 04:21:30 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, 18/07/2015

Class31
Sunday 19th of July 2015 11:43:50 AM
View of Ellesmere Port with a good number of narrow boats present

Martin
Monday 4th of March 2013 06:12:15 PM