Identifier: riversofgreatbr00lond (find matches)
Title: The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rivers
Publisher: London (etc.) Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he provinces have known, ilie needs of llieinhabitants, in the jihy.sical sen.se, have also during recent yiars lieen well attendedto, as is shown by the ojjen .s))aces made even in bu.sy neighbourhoods, and tliej)arks and recreation grounds in the outskirts of lioth Manchester and Sallord.When the citizens feel disjwsed to travel far afield, they cannot in these dayscomplain of lack t)f facilities. Having lirought the .sea to their own doors, (heycan go direct by bf)at to almo.st every jiart. )?y rail they have choice of routest«j all the leading towns of the kinirdoni. One may not Ite jiarticularK jilea.seil with what one .sees of the Irwell as itpasses through the city, but it cannot be regarded as a hiiulrance to free loeoiiiotion.It is liridged over in many places, .so much so that it is jiossilile to i^ct to mid fromSalford along most of the chief thoroughfares of the larger town. Ihe NictoriaBridge is modern, as its name iin)>lies. Inilt two years after the accession of the
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254 niVrUS OF GhKAT 7.7,77I/.V. (Thk Iuwell. Qucfii. it rij)l;i<T(l lie IrecttJ in 13().». and wliirli. Iniui tliat poiiiMl up to170(1. was tlie only lnuliie iMmncctinj: Mancliester proper with Saltnrtl. A woodenstructure built, it is said, l»y a theatrical conijiany. to enahle them to passbetween tlie two towns- preceded the present lilackfriars liridge, on the line of thestreet of that name. There are also the Albert, the IJeiient, the Urouiihton, andother bridges. .\t Hulme Hall Koad. where the Medlock passes into the mainstream, the Irwell loses it.self in the ship-canal. Here, too, is the entrance to theJfanchester .<pace occupies ^S^- acres, and there is a ((ua\- area of2.i acres, with two miles of quay length. On the o))posite side lies Ordsall, witlia rectangular dock 980 feet by 750 feet, and witli another feature of inteiest in tliegi-eat calico ))rinting, dyeing

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