2012

SJ4077 : Ellesmere Port, Canal Basin

taken 12 years ago, near to Whitby, Cheshire West And Chester, England

Ellesmere Port, Canal Basin
Ellesmere Port, Canal Basin
A number of vessels moored in the canal basin between the Boat Museum and the Holiday Inn on Centre Island.

Of the two larger vessels, the one nearest the camera is the steamboat “Basuto”. This former Clyde ‘Puffer’, originally used on Forth & Clyde Canal, transferred to Widnes during the 1920s and was converted to a ‘dumb barge’. She was acquired for preservation in 1981 and is now berthed at Ellesmere Port (LinkExternal link (Archive LinkExternal link ) Steamboat Association).

MV Cuddington is in the branch behind the Basuto; at 102 feet long, she is the largest boat in the museum's collection. She is a 'Weaver Packet' and was built in for ICI 1948. The vessel could carry up to 300 tons of chemical products, like soda ash, from the ICI works at Winnington, near Northwich, down the rivers Weaver and Mersey to Liverpool. She carried on working until the 1970s and came to the Boat Museum in 1979. LinkExternal link North-Cheshire-Marine.org
The National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port

The National Waterways Museum is based in the historic canal docks at Ellesmere Port at the northern extremity of the Shropshire Union Canal where it enters the Manchester Ship Canal at Ellesmere Port.

The museum site consists of the former canal port which initially linked the Shropshire Union Canal with the River Mersey (before the Ship Canal was built). The canal port consisted of a system of locks, docks and warehouses, together with a pump and engine room all of which have been preserved and used within the museum. The port was designed by Thomas Telford under the direction of William Jessop and continued to function as a working canal port until the 1950s after which it gradually became derelict until it was taken over as “the North West Museum of Inland Navigation”, later “The Boat Museum” in the 1970s. In the 1990s The Waterways Trust took on the management of the National Waterways Museum. Funding from Heritage Lottery Fund helped create new displays and improve visitor facilities.

The museum contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world.

LinkExternal link National Waterways Museum website


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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Near [12] · Dumb Barge [6] · Clyde Puffer [4] · River Weaver [4] · Berthed at Ellesmere Port [2] ·
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SJ4077, 233 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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David Dixon   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 25 May, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 29 May, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 4048 7722 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:17.3152N 2:53.6584W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SJ 4053 7724
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West-southwest (about 247 degrees)
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