Wigan Top To Almost Bottom Lock. 22 Locks





A days locking then a stroll along Wigan Pier.







Bear with me here,

last nights local TV was stirring up the fact that this area is going to be suffering a hose pipe ban in the near future. The people are outraged, things must be done etc etc.
This really made us laugh as where we come from down in Kent, if the sun comes out for more than three days a hosepipe ban is in force before you can blink.

Needing a hosepipe to fill the water tank on Ubique we had better be on the move out of this area before the water police become active.









The end of the line.
All those not dropping down the Wigan flight please disembark here.








A ten o'clock start and down we go.
There is a two hundred foot drop in front of the bows from here, twenty one locks make it a nice slow decent but it is a very labour intensive one.








Wigan Pier..............there you go........this is it.......there is no more.

This is a replica made by some students in 1986 which seems to be mainly for the tourist trade.

In reality the the coal was "tippled" (toppled) out of the rail trucks into coal barges









This is how it worked.


Being slightly inquisitive, I would have loved to have been able to find out much more information about how this whole process was conducted.


Google here I come.



Until next time.....................








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