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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

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Leeds Liverpool canal at Arley
Leeds Liverpool canal at Arley
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 35355
Newspaper cutting showing a coal barge at Arley.
Thanks to John Higham for the cutting

Comment by: Irene Roberts on 15th September 2024 at 07:54

The black-and-white and the slight graininess due to the photos being on newspaper give the uncanny feeling that the scenes are timeless.If it had said "Wigan in the 1930s/40s/ 50s/60s/70s I wouldn't have questioned it....an odd phenomenon!

Comment by: Colin Harlow on 23rd September 2024 at 15:35

Photo taken by Arnold Hall and appeared in a Wigan Observer newspaper Special in April 1967.

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