Canal Street
Canalside street of bars and Georgian locks, lined by an 1804 gritstone towpath wall along the water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Canal Street in Manchester starts with a lock number that refuses to match the name of the flight it belongs to. It turns to the stone, timber and cast iron the Rochdale Canal Company paid for in the early eighteen hundreds, and to the low wall at the water's edge. Best heard standing by the lock just east of Princess Street.
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