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By Paul Hindle

The canal acquired its Act of Parliament in 1791, and was once opened from Bolton and Bury to Salford in 1797. The canal by no means reached Manchester. It was once hooked up to the River Irwell in 1808 and to the remainder of the canal approach in 1838. The canal is simply over 15 miles lengthy, and has 3 hands radiating out from Nob lead to Little Lever; all seventeen locks are at the Salford arm. The canal largely carried coal, and there have been over 6 miles of tramways associated with it. because the collieries closed, the canal among 1924 and 1966, although the large breach close to Nob result in 1936 bring to a halt the Bury arm. A canal society used to be shaped in 1987 to revive the canal, and the 1st size used to be reopened in Salford in 2008. The society equipped a different Meccanostyle bridge at Little Lever in 2012.

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