The Leeds Liverpool Canal in Blackburn

Blackburn

Blackburn is famous for its football club and its 4000 holes. Blackburn is the biggest city the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Queen Victoria Statue besides Blackburn Cathedral

passes through between Leeds and Liverpool. Blackburn was the last city to be connected to the canal in 1810. The first barges to arrive in Blackburn on June 27, 1810, brought yarn, tallow, molasses, oil, lead, timber, malt, and 380tons of coal. The canal brought agricultural produce and raw cotton and coal to Blackburn and took away the processed cotton cloth. The price of cotton fell and production increased. The size of the mills grew and because of their need for water and coal they were built along the canal. There were 39 mills by the canal. The canal was used for day trips for mill workers.

Henry Astin ran a packet boat between Burnley and Blackburn in 1824 a journey of 16 miles in 4 hours.


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milestone 54 miles Liverpool	Kings Bridge #96A	Milepost LPool 55 miles Leeds 72¼ miles	View towards Whiteley Bridge #97

Ewood Aqueduct Dated 1810	milestone 55 miles Liverpool	Hollin Bridge #98	Blackburn Locks Bottom Lock #57

Lock #56	Bike Sculpture BWB Sanitary Station	Lock #55	Hall Street Bridge #99A Lock #54 underneath

Lock #54	Highfield Road Bridge #100	Lock #53	wide pound below the Top Lock

Blackburn Top Lock #52 looking towards bridge #101	Brewery Bridge #102	#102A Audley Bridge Makers Plaque	view down to station and cathedral
Eanam Wharf


Cicely Bridge #103		Eanam Wharf

Under the covered loading wharf	R&J Rankin	milepost at the top of a wharf pillar 57 Miles LPool Leeds 70¼ miles	Eanam Wharf

loading bay	The back of the wharf warehouse	wharf office buildings	Eanam Wharf

	Eanam Bridge #103A	under Eanam Bridge #103A	towards Paradise Bridge #103B

Interesting stonework of Navigation Mills	Interesting stonework of Navigation Mills	Paradise Bridge #103B	Bank Field cotton mills

Daisy Field Corn mill with mosque in background	Sour Milk Hall Bridge #104	minarets over Blackburn	Sour Milk Hall Bridge #104

Chimney	old wharf supports	Imperial Mill	Greenbank Bridge #104A

Imperial Mill	Imperial Mill	MilePost 58 Miles LPool Leeds 69¼ miles	Whitebirk

Whitebirk Bridge#104B	Towpath Map	Whitebirk Signpost	Site of former bridge

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Blackburn