How the work was done

Reopening was easy ... all we needed was some cash!

OPENING up the Rochdale Canal was never going to be insurmountable from an engineering point of view, but raising the money was quite another matter.

 

Two hundred years, two engineers, one vision

Two hundred years, two engineers, one vision

AS MEN they could not be more different - working over two centuries apart - but engineers William Jessop and John Parr have a connection - the Rochdale Canal.
Engineering new life for waterway

Engineering new life for waterway

ONE of the biggest engineering projects in Rochdale since the canal was built, the £23.8M restoration has involved a massive effort.

 


 

 
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