{"id":101,"date":"2015-09-04T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2015-12-13T14:38:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:38:52","slug":"canals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/transport\/canals\/","title":{"rendered":"Canals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ring O'Bell's Cottages, Lathom, early 1900s.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Christine Bridges<\/span>).<\/p>\n

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Ring O'Bell's Cottages, Lathom, early 1900s. Looking towards Moss Bridge in the distance.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Christine Bridges<\/span>).<\/p>\n

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The Leeds - Liverpool Canal at Burscough Wharf, c1950.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ainscough's Mill and the Leeds - Liverpool canal, early 1900s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The canal<\/span> at Rufford<\/span>, early 1900s. St Mary's Church can be seen in the distance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Dry Dock (or Graving Dock) at Top Locks<\/span>, Lathom, early 1900s.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - John & Margaret Hesketh).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Silcock's annual Rushbearing Fair (often referred to locally as Rushburying<\/span>), early 1900s.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Alan Birch).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Silcock's annual Rushbearing Fair (often referred to locally as Rushburying<\/span>), early 1900s.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Danny Hunter).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Rufford Line looking towards Top Locks from Runnel Brow Bridge, early 1900s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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View from the canal<\/span> looking towards Palais Buildings, early 1900s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Leeds - Liverpool canal at Burscough, c1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Glovers Bridge<\/span>, Wheat Lane, c1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tom Spencer<\/span> Snr. (of Burscough) passing through Bootle on the Leeds - Liverpool Canal, date unknown.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Tom Spencer<\/span>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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One of Ainscough's motor boats 'Ironclad<\/span>' approaching Burscough loaded with corn from Liverpool, 1950s. To the right is Peter Gibbons, and being towed (out of shot) is the dumb boat 'Viktoria'.<\/p>\n

(Photo courtesy - Tom Spencer).<\/p>\n

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Ainscough's Mill at Parbold<\/span> and the canal<\/span> boat 'Lune', c1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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The Packet House<\/span> and Palais Buildings by the Leeds - Liverpool Canal, early 1900s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Ring O’Bell’s Cottages, Lathom, early 1900s.(Photo courtesy – Christine Bridges).\u00a0 Ring O’Bell’s Cottages, Lathom, early 1900s. Looking towards Moss Bridge in the distance.(Photo courtesy – Christine Bridges).\u00a0 The Leeds – Liverpool Canal at Burscough Wharf, c1950. Ainscough’s Mill and the Leeds – Liverpool canal, early 1900s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/1712"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/images-of-burscough.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}