Can anyone tell me where I can get a picture of Manchester Ship Canal?

Dec 31, 2007 by MEL. | Posted in Other - Home & Garden

There is a painting hanging in the Rovers in Corrie Manchester Ship Canal. Does anyone know where I could get one please?

Is it possible to walk along the Manchester Ship Canal all the way from Manchester to the sea?

Jul 19, 2009 by Reinhard Florian | Posted in Manchester

Is there a footpath like the Thames path along the banks of the canal or do you have to use nearby roads?

If there is a path, where in Greater Manchester does it start?

There is no footpath that goes the entire length of the MSC you would have to go down local roads for quite a while. Start at Salford Quays and follow the canal to Eccles then its the A57 onwards. Mersey Ferries do a six hour cruise which I would sooner

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The company will move its operations from 3 Hardman Square to the newly-renovated Ship Canal House on King Street on 25th September. The new venture means the firms, which consist of lawyers, solicitors and partners,  will now be combined over 4 floors at Ship Canal House. Legal company HBJ Gately Wareing have announced plans to move to new office space in Manchester , following an expansion which saw them take on 200 new members of staff. The new building consists of 31,000 square feet of space and will play host to the firm and its 200 new members of staff, who were acquired following the folding of Halliwells....

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Just as brutalism, for all its astringency and confrontational aesthetic, was underpinned by a fundamental concern for humanity, so this collection for all its stylistic tricks and tropes, its plurality of reference points and its ventriloquism,... For Lake Windermere, read the Manchester Ship Canal. Barrett is as fascinated by place and landscape as Wordsworth or Coleridge, but his is an urban, post-industrial pastoral. And running through it like a seam of quartz through igneous rock is that ultimate romantic theme: the self. A self sometimes effaced, sometimes abnegated, sometimes mislaid in a meeting room or waiting area, but always enduring, resurfacing and re-occurring. for the storm scoured heath, read the corporate courtyard. for the opium den, read the fast food outlet....

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