Celebrating Manchester History: Along the Canals
August 9 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Celebrating Manchester History: Along the Canals
* Sat 9 Aug 2025, 2.30pm.
* Meet outside Oxford Road Station
“Streets full of water. Please advise.” Surely Mark Twain was reporting back from Manchester, not Venice, for the city is a font of watery ways and walks? Built during the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the Rochdale Canal, the Ashton Canal and their tributaries brought coal and cotton to central Manchester, and took away manufactured goods to be sent around the world. Then the work stopped and the canals silted up, but over the last fifty years the canals have been wonderfully restored.
Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, for a celebratory saunter along the great waterways.