The first attempt towards making navigable the rivers mersey and irwell from liverpool to manchester was the obtaining an act in the year 1720 under the title of an act for making the rivers mersey and irwell navigable from manchester to liverpool in the. The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation in north west england which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently.
Mersey and irwell navigation. 15 royal assent 17th june 1720. Eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently. Mersey and irwell navigation.
See priestley s navigable rivers and canals for more information. Mersey irwell navigation. In 1887 both the mersey and irwell navigation and the bridgewater canal were taken over by the ship canal company for 1 710 000 and the first sod of the ship canal was cut at eastham on the mersey estuary.
37 royal assent 28th march 1794. By 1894 most of the navigation had been replaced by the manchester ship canal. Was a 20 25 mile 8 locks river navigation from bank quay warrington to quay street manchester.
The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation in north west england which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey. The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation in north west england which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently. 14 october 1815 handwritten copy of a settlement on a marriage of charles flint and elizabeth gough both from leek stafford surgeon as to five shares of the mersey and irwell navigation company manchester 32 x 20 cm black beige smaller edge damages 14 pages.
Eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently. The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation in north west england which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently. The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation in north west england which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey eight locks were constructed between 1724 and 1734 and the rivers were improved by the construction of new cuts several times subsequently.
Authorised by an act of june 1721 work started in 1724 opened in 1736. The mersey and irwell navigation was a river navigation which provided a navigable route from the mersey estuary to salford and manchester by improving the course of the river irwell and the river mersey.
