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Old 04-05-2022, 12:09   #60
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Re: Guess the place game

Yep well done heero and I suspect Halcyon had worked it out as well.

It's the The Duke of Bridgewater boathouse on the Bridgewater canal at Worsley and the bright orange water is due to the water coming from the mines containing traces of iron ore.

As I mentioned earlier the Boat House is a grade II listed building dating from the early/mid 19th century. It was built by 1st Earl of Ellesmere, a descendant of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater who financed the construction of the canal to carry coals from his local mines in to Manchester. The boathouses's original role was as a home for the Royal Boat that carried Queen Victoria along the canal when she visited Worsley in 1851

For anyone interested here's a link which gives the history of the Worsley Navigable Levels which are an extensive 52 miles of underground canal tunnels forming a series of coal mines in Worsley which were worked,in the main, by boats called starvationers which were forty seven feet long and four feet and a half wide including the gunnels and carried 7/8 tons of coal and and being linked together and brought out of the tunnel from six to twenty at a time .
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