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A. Provand has written:

'The Manchester Ship Canal scheme' -- subject(s): Manchester Ship Canal Co

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Your thinking of the Manchester Ship Canal, it links landlocked Manchester with The Irish Sea via the River Mersey and Liverpool.

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it was built last year

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Yes,Birmingham is connected to the sea by the Birmingham Canal which like the Manchester Ship Canal has massive ships going to the inland ports for trade.

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These are symbols of the Manchester ship canal, connecting Manchester with the River Mersey and eventually the Irish Sea, constructed to transport textiles from the industrial heartlands of Manchester and other nearby Lancashire towns.

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Manchester is directly connected to the sea by the Manchester Ship Canal, the nearest port on the coast is Liverpool.

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The manchestership canal is 30ft deep and 36 miles long.

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W. Burnett Tracy has written:

'Port of Manchester' -- subject(s): Manchester Ship Canal

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The Copthorne Hotel Manchester is located in the English city of Manchester as it's name suggests. It's sutuated just outside the city center along the Manchester ship canal.

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The Ali-ali-O is the Manchester ship canal built in the 1880's and early 1890's. It turned Manchester in to England's 3rd most important Trading port despite the fact that Manchester is over 50 miles from the coast. There would have been hundreds of big ships using it everyday bringing in cotton form the USA, so it is very likely that one of these large ships sailed on the last day of September. the Canal is no longer in major use, as it it not big enough to deal with today's modern ship sizes.

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In late 1898, the Manchester City, 7,698 gross tons, became the largest vessel to reach the terminal docks carrying cattle and general cargo and being met by the Lord Mayor of Manchester and a large welcoming crowd

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Design: Edward Leader Williams Construction: Thomas Walker, later John Aird.

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Manchester wouldn't be land-locked because it is connected to the sea via the Manchester Ship Canal.

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George Best was a professional footballer who played for Manchester United. Before his playing career, he worked as an errand boy on Manchester Ship Canal.

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The BBC Radio 5 headquarters is located at MediaCityUK on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford and Trafford, Greater Manchester. The address is The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, Salford, M50 2EQ.

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The Manchester Ship Canal an ALLY is the rear passage behind the terraced houses of the area. an other name for which is BACK ENTERY.

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Ship Canal Bridge was created in 1961.

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The Warrington Town FC ground is sited on the north side of the Manchester Ship Canal, near the Cantilever bridge in Latchford.

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There is the Manchester Ship Canal, which enables ships to reach the port in Manchester from the River Mersey. According to the website, the port has Commercial cargo handling facilities. Due to larger ships and containers, the docks went into decline and closed In 1982 and the area became derelict. There are plans to rejuvenate the area.

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The River Mersey begins in Stockport and travels for 20 odd miles through South Manchester before entering the Manchester Ship Canal at Flixton.

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The Big Ditch is also the name given to the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894 which brought ocean going vessels to the city of Manchester UK, 40 miles inland via the River Mersey estuary, by-passing the established port of Liverpool. Navigable canals and rivers had been in place between the two cities for many years but the Ship Canal was a huge investment in cash and effort.Some say this is the cause of the bitter rivalry between Liverpool Football Club and Manchester United, but I never sense the same acrimony regarding Everton FC and Manchester City FC.

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By 1799 the canal was open between Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden and from Manchester to Rochdale. The Canal was closed in 1952 and was reopened in 2002.

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The Mersey, Irwell, Tame and Medlock run through Manchester. The Croal runs through Bolton. The Roch runs through Rochdale. The Douglas runs through Wigan. The Etherow and Goyt run through Stockport.

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the welland canal was built to ship items from the U.S.A to Canada

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what is the average amount of money paid by each ship going through the canal

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The first ship to pass through the panama canal offcially was on August 15th, 1914 The first ship to pass through the panama canal unoffcially was on August 3rd, 1914

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Venice and Amsterdam are the best known. Bruges has a canal system. There are many canals in and around Manchester

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He didn't. The Duke of Bridgewater had a canal built from his coal mines in Worsley to the centre of Manchester. This is not in London. The first part of his canal opened in 1763. He didn't invent canals, though. The Sankey Canal near Warrington had already opened a few years earlier. The Duke went to look at the Canal du Midi in France and the Newry Canal in Ireland, which were older. The Exeter Ship Canal had opened back in 1566 and a number of canals were built in England by the Romans, including the Foss Dyke,which is still in use, between Lincoln and the River Trent.

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The Grand Canal in China which connects Beijing to Hangzhou. It is 1,114 miles long.

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The first ship to complete the transit fo the canal was the cargo ship "Ancon", on August 15, 1914.

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The quickest way by ship from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean is via the Suez Canal. A link to the Wikipedia article on Egypt's Suez Canal is provided.

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A ship sailing from Hawaii to the East Coast of the United States is likely to use the Panama Canal. Once through the Canal the ship will head to the East Coast.

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"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!" is a palindrome that could refer to a ship's deck.

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