The Manchester Ship Canal: The Big Ditch: Manchester's Ship Canal book It wasn't always like this-

It wasn't always like this- at one time the docks at Birkenhead and Liverpool received the goods that Manchester needed and everything travelled by railway

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The Manchester Ship Canal: The Big Ditch: Manchester's Ship Canal book It wasn't always like this-Nowadays most of us think of the Manchester Ship Canal as that bit of water under the Thelwall Viaduct as we sit in one of England's traffic jam black spots but in the days before the M6, the Manchester Ship Canal was an important route from the docks at Salford and industrial Manchester to the world. From banana boats to cattle carriers, from tramp steamers to pleasure steamers, all sorts of shops used this thoroughfare. It wasn't always like this at