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Originally Posted by Gremlin
Do you know anything about a coke loading gantry over the canal? From the little I can remember being told it was situated some where behind the Moorfield Colliery/Coke works and was like a bridge where coke was tipped into barges.
I have tried to find it on Google maps but all I can see is a structure for carrying pipes over the water, is that the bridge which has been utilized by the water comapny.
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I dont know about the coke gantry but the pipes you mention are part of the thirlmere pipeline which takes water from the lakes to manchester.(I used to work on the canal did 11 years worked everywhere from greenberfield to liverpool stanley flight)
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