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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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.
That canal was built to link the Irwell to the Bridgewater Canal, (fron where Granada Studios is to where the Bridgewater Hall is) not to cut Bridgewater out. It was used, but only for a few years, mainly due to the railways being developed.Until Lord Bridgewater (who owned the canal system into Manchester tried to stitch the businessmen up by increasing the toll charge. So the businessmen built another canal to cut out Lord Bridgewaters ....this canal runs underneath the (now) Manchester Central and is the reason why the car park underneath has wet / damp patches. The canal stopped on Deansgate underneath what was RicherSounds. Just before the new canal was due to be opened Lord Bridgewater relented and didnt up the prices. The canal is still there although its never been used other than as an air raid shelter in the war