He used this knowledge while working on the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), executing a series of difficult cuts, embankments and stone viaducts to smooth the route the railways took.

* 1936 – A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading into the River Irwell.

Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.

Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

Workshops at the Green Room and on the Nuyrican poets previous visits to Manchester, assisted in similar events being held through the directive of Common word and Culture word officers at the time, Pete Kalu and Cathy Bolton.

Further variations are to be found within the regions identified below ; for example, towns located less than from the city of Manchester such as Bolton, Oldham and Salford, each have distinct accents, all of which form the Lancashire accent, yet in extreme cases are different enough to be noticed even by a non-local listener.

The accents of Northern England are also distinctive including a range of variations: Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Cumbria, Lancashire with regional variants in Bolton, Burnley, Blackburn, Manchester, Preston, Blackpool, Merseyside and Wigan, Yorkshire is also distinctive, having variations between the North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire.

Just before leaving Manchester and entering Bolton, the post road breaks off Route 44 onto Middle Turnpike East ( the portion of Route 44 between Manchester and Bolton is known as " New Bolton Road ")

The major urban centres of Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Blackburn, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham and Stockport, with a combined population of almost one million, were represented by either the two county MPs for Lancashire, or the two for Cheshire in the case of Stockport.

It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford.

First came a 3 – 1 home win over eventual double winners Manchester United, then came a 1 – 0 away win over relegated Bolton Wanderers.

Adair was released from prison on 10 January 2005 and immediately headed to Bolton after being taken by helicopter to nearby Manchester.

* Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal

Chorley is located 8. 1 miles North of Wigan 10. 8 miles south west of Blackburn, 11 miles north west of Bolton 12 miles south of Preston and 19. 5 miles north west of Manchester.

Today many of the town's residents work in Manchester, Preston and nearby towns Bolton, Blackburn and Wigan.

* Stagecoach North West operate bus services which connect the town to Bolton, Blackburn, Preston and Manchester, and the Network Chorley routes within the borough.

* Northern Rail Manchester to Preston Line runs through Chorley and also connects the town to Bolton, Preston and Manchester.

* Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal

The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester.

There was once a rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, but this was closed in the 1960s as part of cuts following the Beeching Report.

Local groups have argued for a reinstatement of the rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, that was closed in the 1960s.

* Goshen, Bury, a small area of land in Bury, Greater Manchester, England

* Fairfield, Bury, part of Bury, Greater Manchester

Five examples of this are Manchester ( where the traditional area associated includes areas of the neighbouring authorities of Trafford, Tameside, Oldham, Bury and the City of Salford ), Kingston upon Hull ( where surrounding areas and villages that are effectively suburbs, such as Cottingham, come under East Riding of Yorkshire Council ), Glasgow ( where suburban areas of the city are located in East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire ), Wolverhampton ( areas of the neighbouring authorities of Walsall, Dudley and South Staffordshire ) and, most obviously, London ( Greater London outside the City of London ).

To reach Heywood the extension had to cross over the Manchester Metrolink line to Bury, at the site of the former Bury Knowsley Street station.

With the arrival of more favourable conditions, including the end of the war, a proposal for a canal to link the towns of Manchester, Bolton and Bury was mooted.

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Anne's brother, Hugh Henshall was involved in canal construction himself, on the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal.

Probably, the most memorable of the rounds, in the original series, this pre-recorded segment involved the contestants racing to complete an army assault course located at Holcombe Moor in Bury, Greater Manchester.

Manchester Piccadilly station is the terminus for Manchester Metrolink services to Bury, Altrincham, Eccles and MediaCityUK.

The factory grounds were bordered by the Bridgewater Canal and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Smaller transportation canals can carry barges or narrowboats, while ship canals allow seagoing ships to travel to an inland port ( e. g., Manchester Ship Canal ), or from one sea or ocean to another ( e. g., Caledonian Canal, Panama Canal ).

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

Only the Manchester Ship Canal and the Aire and Calder Canal bucked this trend.

The Bridgewater Canal, the first successful canal, crossing the Manchester Ship Canal, one of the last canals to be built.

The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.

* 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.

* 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.

* May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are opened by Queen Victoria.

* July 17-The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.

Manchester Pride centres around the famous Canal Street and Is usually held about the 3rd weekend of August.

* Bridgewater Canal, from Preston Brook ( and from Worsley ) to Manchester

The River Cam, Basingstoke Canal and Manchester Ship Canal were also outside the jurisdiction of British Waterways.

Another stimulus to trade was provided by the Rochdale Canal, which opened up a through route from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester from 1804.

* The Rochdale Canal leads to Rochdale and Manchester