Author: Manchester Guardian
Title: History of the Ship Canal Undertaking. Reprinted from the "Manchester Guardian" of December 30th, 1893
Description: Manchester, UK: Manchester Guardian, 1893. Reprint. Eight Stapled Folded Pages, 8" x 14", Good with marginal tears, some staining to first page. The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary near Liverpool, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. Construction began in 1887; it took six years and cost £15 million (equivalent to about £1.65 billion in 2011). When the ship canal opened in January 1894 it was the largest river navigation canal in the world, and enabled the newly created Port of Manchester to become Britain's third busiest port despite the city being about 40 miles (64 km) inland. .

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