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Reopening was easy ... all we needed was some cash!

2007-08-13T18:59:09

OPENING up the Rochdale Canal was never going to be insurmountable from an engineering point of view, but raising the money was quite another matter.

Money needed to save wildlife on the canal

2007-08-13T23:18:21

ENDANGERED species that make their home in and around the Rochdale Canal will be put at risk unless The Waterways Trust can find the money to build a new canalside reserve.

A brief history of the Rochdale canal

2007-08-13T23:17:11

THE first canal to be built over the formidable barrier of the Pennines, the Rochdale runs from the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge.

Councillor Allen Brett

2007-08-13T23:16:55

OPENING up the canal was never going to be insurmountable from an engineering point of view, but raising the money was quite another matter.

Boaters will be a splash hit with economy

2007-09-28T11:28:35

Director of Rochdale Council's Regeneration Unit, Andy Zuntz, said of the restoration scheme: "The premise is that we would not have gone ahead with this scheme if it wasn't going to make a significant difference to the economy of the borough.

A special vote of thanks from us voles!

2007-08-13T23:16:59

A TEAM of ecologists from British Waterways have been monitoring the impact of the restoration works; not just in the water, but the whole environment around the canal.

Two hundred years, two engineers, one vision

2007-08-13T23:16:45

AS MEN they could not be more different - working over two centuries apart - but engineers William Jessop and John Parr have a connection - the Rochdale Canal.

Brian Holden

2007-08-13T23:16:53

BRIAN Holden has spent the last 28 years telling people there's no such word as 'never', at least as far as the Rochdale Canal is concerned.

The rise, fall and rise of the Rochdale

2007-08-13T23:16:39

A time line showing the development of the Rochdale canal from 1766 when the idea was first mooted to the present day

That’s the way the money went ...

2007-08-13T23:17:00

£23.8M was spent on the project - funded by the Millennium Commission (£11.8M), English Partnerships (£10.9M) and a consortium of Oldham and Rochdale Councils (£1.1M).

Keith Parry

2007-08-13T23:16:52

WHILE boating on the Norfolk Broads with his parents, young Keith Parry never guessed how important waterways would turn out to be.

Great Flood of Middleton

2007-08-13T23:16:56

AS IT travels towards Manchester, the canal often rises on embankments or aqueducts to cross low ground or other watercourses.

The times they have a-changed

2007-08-13T23:16:42

HARD to believe but these two pictures are taken from exactly the same spot - 30 years apart.

Tales from the Tow Path

2007-08-13T23:16:57

IT SEEMS the canal bears the handiwork of Britain's greatest mass murderer, but the picturesque Long Lees Lock near Littleborough seems an unlikely place to find it.

No way back for the town basin

2007-08-13T23:16:44

IT LOOKS just like a normal car-park serving a normal retail park. But it once brought in a different kind of business rather than the weekend shoppers in their cars.