Restoring the Historic Stockport Canal Feasibility & Revival #UKCanals #Restoration #Manchester

The Forgotten Waterway of Manchester and Stockport

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Today we take a walk down through the industrial heartland of Manchester, from near to sportcity the fantastic complex by Manchester City FC and the Etihad stadium, Co-Op Live Arena and the training complex we walk away from the Ashton Canal through Clayton and Openshaw towards Stockport and the Gorton Reservoir and outdoor centre following the yellow brick road. We explore Old Bridges, Aqueducts and discover lots of original parts of the canal including cobbled towpaths and old docks. The area is complete with cycle ways following abandoned railways on the Fallowfield loop which takes in the canal route, could this be a future green highway for people moving around the city? Could a new marina revitalise the area and bring millions into the local economy. Could Man City help to fund it?

This really is a fascinating area and one with massive opportunity to help revitalise an area that’s pulling out of its post industrial decline. Please do follow the links below and see if you can help this fantastic project.

Manchester and Stockport Canal Society – http://www.mscs.org.uk

Manchester and Stockport Canal Society Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068238694666

Fund Britains Waterways petition – https://www.change.org/p/fundbritainswaterways

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Fund Britains waterways – https://waterways.org.uk/waterways/sites/fund-britains-waterways-overview

Keep canals alive (canal and river trust) – https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/support-us/our-campaigns/keep-canals-alive

Rail Map Online – https://www.railmaponline.com

Waterway Routes – https://www.waterwayroutes.co.uk

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to the Stockport Branch Canal was about 4 mil long just over 4 miles and the restoration they’re looking at takes us to the reservoir at Gorton and it’s about a mile and a half the other side of this has been built on quite badly but as we walk our way down through this video you’re going to see just how feasible this project is the canal was originally built in 1797 and by it was a very busy Canal this was all Fields when it was built and a lot of Industry sprung up all the way down through here it carried on to be busy until the 1930s where trade dropped off significantly and by the 1950s this whole Canal channel was gone it was filled it was it was completely impassible uh the canal was eventually abandoned in 1962 as a lot of canals were at that time cuz things were changing with with British waterways and stuff but the trust were formed the Manchester and Stockport Canal society and they are here to try and restore this canal and bring it to the attention of people in the area