Slide set: [Phelps Collection: images of the Bridgewater Canal] (lecture: privately made, at least 125 slides, n.d.)

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Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

[1]

[2]

Barton Road, arch formerly part of Aqueduct

Slide 373

[4]

The Tsar's Wedgwood: A View of Worsley Bridge

[5]

[Act of Parliament establishing Bridgewater Canal]

Slide 7

[7]

Slide 44

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[14]

[15]

[16]

Slide 2

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

Canal bridge at Worsley, showing entrance to basin and subterranean Canal

[25]

Piston and shaft of 1799 steamboat, Worsley

[26]

[27]

Diagram of underground inclined plane, Worsley

[28]

Buttress of Brindley's Aqueduct and Ship Canal Aqueduct

[29]

Patricroft -- Bridge of first public Railway crossing first Artificial Canal

[30]

Old Barton Bridge and Aqueduct, with Trestle Bridge for new Ship Canal works

[31]

[32]

[33]

Entrance to subterranean tunnel, Bridgewater Canal, Worsley

[34]

Demolishing Brindley's Aqueduct, Barton, also erection of new aqueduct

[35]

The old and the new aqueduct, Barton -- Road bridge partly demolished

[36]

Wedgwood dish (made for Catherine II of Russia) with a view of the Canal, Worsley

[37]

[38]

A prehistoric canoe discovered while excavating the Manchester Ship Canal

[39]

[40]

[41]

Ship Canal Aqueduct in position at Barton

[42]

[43]

Worsley New Hall -- Engraved by Appleton after Sam Bough

Slide 150

[45]

[46]

[47]

[49]

[Factory with water wheel by side of weir in river]

[50]

[51]

[Group of men and boys in historical costume on river boat]

[52]**

[53]

[54]**

[55]

[56]

[57]

[58]

[59]

[60]

[61]

[62]

[63]

[64]

View showing sharp bend in Canal at Monton

[65]

[66]

A View of the Duke of Bridgewater's Aqueduct over the River Mersey

[67]

Quarry and subterranean canal at Worsley

[68]

[69]

[70]

[71]

[72]

[73]

[Entrance to Subterranean Canal, Worsley]

[74]

Slide 20

[76]

Bridgewater Canal Looking towards Worsley

[77]

Vue du Canal du Duc de Bridgewater près du Pont de Worsley

[78]

[79]

[80]

[81]

[82]

Title slide, 'The Romance of an Old Canal'

[83]

[84]

[85]

Canal at Worsley from bridge looking towards Leigh

[86]

[87]

[88]

[89]

[90]

[91]

[92]

[93]

[94]

[95]

Section of the 'Charlotte Dundas' steamboat

[96]

[97]

[98]

[99]

[100]

[101]

The Boat Steps, Worsley, showing Old Warehouse and Mill

[102]

[103]

[104]

[105]

[106]

[107]

[108]

Expeditious Canal Conveyance between Manchester and London

[109]

Plan of the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal 1769, by Young

[110]

[111]

[112]

[113]

Section of Canal Embankment, Sale, Cheshire

[114]

[115]

[116]

[117]

[118]

Basin at union of Canal and Medlock, 1769

[119]

[Share certificate for Mersey and Irwell Navigation]

[120]

[121]

[Act of Parliament authorising Mersey and Irwell Navigation]

[122]

Signature of the Great Duke of Bridgewater, 1758

[123]

[124]

[Act of Parliament authorising making Worsley Brook navigable]

[125]

[126]

[127]

Old Pumping Engine over Subterranean Canal at [illegible]

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

at least 125

Manufacturer

privately made, England

Date of first manufacture

unknown

People involved in slide production

BOUGH, Samuel (1822-1878) – creator of source image(s), slide [43]

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) – creator of source image(s), slides [9], 2, [77], [99]

People appearing in slides

BRIDGEWATER, 3rd Duke of (1736-1803) – slide [88]

BRINDLEY, James (1716-1772) – slide [87]

Collections

125 slides in Chetham's Library, Manchester

125 slides in J.J. Phelps Collection

Lucerna ID 3009100

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 5 December 2018

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Slide set: [Phelps Collection: images of the Bridgewater Canal] (lecture: privately made, at least 125 slides, n.d.)