Manchester - so much to answer for....

Tuearts right boot said:
Built purely to piss the scousers off....It used to cost more to get a cargo of grain or cotton from Liverpool docks into Manchester than the whole cost of the journey from India or Canada into Liverpool so the Canal and the docks were built,solely financed by the merchants of Manchester and dug by the Irish to avoid the high taxes and handling charge imposed by the work shy, bone idle, communist,robbing scouse twats.A masterplan and a feat of engineering thus giving us the term Navvies after navigation.
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I knew it was big, great history. Are there any books you'd recommend on it? I ask because a friends' kid was doing some homework the other day on Lewiston, Idaho which is the furthest inland port from the pacific. The subject of ports morphed into World seaports etc but I didn't realise Manchester had been that big on the world scale.
 
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Dalian Blue said:
There were a lot of Flemish worked on the canal, weaved rushes (?) into matting to support the banks whilst the canal filled with water. I remember in the late '60s when a Manchester liner went through the lock gates at Irlam, the canal level dropped around 15 feet and the old woven matting was visible, still there after all those years. I'm told that is why there are pubs in the area with names like 'The Flemish Weaver'.

My Great granddad was one of many who headed north to work on the canal, he was originally from the Isle of Sheppey, after him there were members of every generation of my family that worked for the canal company, including me, I was the last. I worked at Salford Docks Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Dept. from 1979 to 1983, quite an experience but it didn't take long to realise the writing was on the wall.

My granddad was awarded the BEM (British Empire Medal) for his services as a dock worker during the Blitz, never missed a stint, always on time and so on.

I never cease to be amazed at how much has occurred in Manchester and the surrounding area, engineering, science, technology, politics, art, music and so on. There's a lot of creativity and innovation in that corner of Lancashire.
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There's a boozer somewhere, I've seen it few times but dont know where, poss Salford, called the Flemish Weaver....well I never.
 
idahoblues said:
I knew it was big, great history. Are there any books you'd recommend on it? I ask because a friends' kid was doing some homework the other day on Lewiston, Idaho which is the furthest inland port from the pacific. The subject of ports morphed into World seaports etc but I didn't realise Manchester had been that big on the world scale.
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Cant help you there but there must be something written about it.
 
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