ancoats said:
anybody seen this site
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Well, I've found from that thread the nursery rhyme "The big ship sails on the Ally ally oh" is apparently about the Manchester ship canal. Never knew that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1Dm4UXLZc
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1Dm4UXLZc[/youtube]
Some gems on that thread mind:
That canal is like a Dickens novel boiled down into its essence - and Ancoats is even darker - and downright frightening - further up the canal. There is a Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episode showing the murderous stretch of canal tunnel in one scene where men have a fight and one falls in a canal.
Whatever you do - I advise everyone to resist all temptation to go down there from now on! It's the worst place in the world without exaggeration.
They're both from the same poster. He also posts about the canal st/Ancoats section of the canal being a well known "cruising" spot. I have thought for a while IF there is any foul play in all of these deaths that will somehow be a contributory factor.